Logos Without Rhetoric

The Arts of Language Before Plato

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2017
University of South Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-61117-768-8 (ISBN)

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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 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.

Robin Reames is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Edward Schiappa, head of Comparative Media Studies/Writing and John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provides an afterword.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
Vorwort	Edward Schiappa
Verlagsort	South Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 231 mm
Gewicht	410 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Briefe / Präsentation / Rhetorik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-61117-768-5 / 1611177685
ISBN-13	978-1-61117-768-8 / 9781611177688
Zustand	Neuware