Seeming and Being in Plato's Rhetorical Theory (Hardcover)

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Published by The University of Chicago Press, 2018

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Hardcover. The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact, it is a theory of language conceived by Plato, culminating in The Sophist. In that dialogue Plato introduced the idea of statements as being either true or false, where the distinction between falsity and truth rests on a deeper discrepancy between appearance and reality, or seeming and being. Robin Reamess Seeming & Being in Platos Rhetorical Theory marks a shift in Plato scholarship. Reames argues that an appropriate understanding of rhetorical theory in Platos dialogues illuminates how he developed the technical vocabulary needed to construct the very distinctions between seeming and being that separate true from false speech. By engaging with three key movements of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Plato scholarshipthe rise and subsequent marginalization of orality and literacy theory, Heideggers controversial critique of Platonist metaphysics, and the influence of literary or dramatic readings of the dialoguesReames demonstrates how the development of Platos rhetorical theory across several of his dialogues (Gorgias, Phaedrus, Protagoras, Theaetetus, Cratylus, Republic, and Sophist) has been both neglected and misunderstood. An analysis of Plato and the relationship he posits among language, truth, and the world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title
Seeming and Being in Plato's Rhetorical Theory (Hardcover)
Author
Robin Reames
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Publication year
2018
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Hardcover
Language
English
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