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1. The “Cosmetics” of Sophistry

Seeming and Being in the Gorgias
© 2019 University of Chicago Press

© 2019 University of Chicago Press

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface xi
  4. INTRODUCTION. Literacy, Dramatic Form, Metaphysics 1
  5. 1. The “Cosmetics” of Sophistry 21
  6. 2. The Oral Poet and the Literate Sophist 47
  7. 3. Heraclitean Opposition and Parmenidean Contradiction 77
  8. 4. Sophistry without Measure, Dialectic without Rhetoric 99
  9. 5. The Rhetoric of Mimêsis 123
  10. 6. Imitators of Truth 149
  11. EPILOGUE. The Past and Future of Plato’s Rhetorical Theory 169
  12. Notes 175
  13. Bibliography 205
  14. Index 225
Seeming and Being in Plato’s Rhetorical Theory
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https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226567150-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface xi
  4. INTRODUCTION. Literacy, Dramatic Form, Metaphysics 1
  5. 1. The “Cosmetics” of Sophistry 21
  6. 2. The Oral Poet and the Literate Sophist 47
  7. 3. Heraclitean Opposition and Parmenidean Contradiction 77
  8. 4. Sophistry without Measure, Dialectic without Rhetoric 99
  9. 5. The Rhetoric of Mimêsis 123
  10. 6. Imitators of Truth 149
  11. EPILOGUE. The Past and Future of Plato’s Rhetorical Theory 169
  12. Notes 175
  13. Bibliography 205
  14. Index 225
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