| Who Is Afraid of the Rhetor? an Analysis and Exegesis of Socrates and Gorgias' Conversation in Plato's Gorgias Contributor(s): Liebersohn, Yosef Z. (Author) |
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ISBN: 146320258X ISBN-13: 9781463202583 Publisher: Gorgias Press OUR PRICE: $167.31 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 170 |
| LCCN: 2014029487 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.96 lbs) 180 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book concentrates on the conversation between Socrates and Gorgias which takes place in the first part of Plato's Gorgias. Scholars have tended to concentrate on the following two conversations held by Socrates with Polus and, especially, with Callicles. This first, relatively short, conversation is usually taken to be a kind of preface coming before Plato's 'real' philosophy. The present study challenges this assumption, arguing that the conversation between Socrates and Gorgias actually anticipates the message of the whole dialogue, which concerns the essence of rhetoric and its implications. |