Logos without Rhetoric (eBook)

The Arts of Language before Plato

Robin Reames (Herausgeber)

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2017
208 Seiten
University of South Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-61117-769-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A germinal examination of rhetoric's beginnings through pre-fourth-century Greek texts

How did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called "rhetoric"? Must art have a name to be considered art? What is the difference between eloquence and rhetoric? And what were the differences, if any, among poets, philosophers, sophists, and rhetoricians before Plato emphasized—or perhaps invented—their differences? In Logos without Rhetoric: The Arts of Language before Plato, Robin Reames attempts to intervene in these and other questions by examining the status of rhetorical theory in texts that predate Plato's coining of the term rhetoric (c. 380 B.C.E.). From Homer and Hesiod to Parmenides and Heraclitus to Gorgias, Theodorus, and Isocrates, the case studies contained here examine the status of the discipline of rhetoric prior to and therefore in the absence of the influence of Plato and Aristotle's full-fledged development of rhetorical theory in the fourth century B.C.E.

The essays in this volume make a case for a porous boundary between theory and practice and promote skepticism about anachronistic distinctions between myth and reason and between philosophy and rhetoric in the historiography of rhetoric's beginning. The result is an enlarged understanding of the rhetorical content of pre-fourth-century Greek texts.

Edward Schiappa, head of Comparative Media Studies/Writing and the John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provides an afterword.

Autor

Robin Reames is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.6.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Rhetoric / Communication
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
• Nachwort: Edward Schiappa
• Verlagsort: Columbia
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Antithesis • Aristotle • ART • Callicles • Case Studies • declamation • Disputation • Dissoi logoi • Gorgias • language • Logos • Myth • nous • obscurantism • Paradox • Philosophy • Plato • Platonic Academy • Platonism • Pseudo-Plutarch • rhetoric • Sine qua non • Stoicism • Superiority (short story) • theory • The Philosopher • The Unwritten • Zeno's paradoxes
• ISBN-10: 1-61117-769-3 / 1611177693
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-769-5 / 9781611177695