Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition. From Plato to Postmodernism.

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Published by Yale University Press; New Haven and London, 1997

0300068387 / 9780300068382

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VIII; 293 Seiten; 24 cm; fadengeh. Orig.-Pappband m. illustr. OUmschlag. Gutes Exemplar. - Englisch. - What is the role of rhetoric in a civil society? In this thought-provoking book, James L Kastely examines works by writers from Plato to Jane Austen to Sartre and locates a line of thinking that values rhetoric but also raises questions about the viability of rhetorical practice. While dealing principally with literary theory, rhetoric, and philosophy, the author's arguments extend to practical concerns and open up the way to deeper thinking about individual responsibility for existing injus-tices, for inadvertently injuring others, and for silencing those without power. Challenging the traditional claim that Plato is the chief opponent of rhetoric, Kastely contends that he was its most sophisticated theorist. Plato, Sophocles, and Euripides, the author asserts, recognized an essential paradox: while urgently believing in the need for rhetoric in a world where injustice cannot be eliminated, they nevertheless regarded the possibilities of rhetoric with skepticism. . (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Acknowledgments ----- Refutation: Rhetoric as a Philosophical Problem ----- Socratic and Tragic Skepticism ----- In Defense of Plato's Gorgias ----- Persuasion and Refutation: Meno's Challenge ----- Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Crisis of Rhetoric ----- Violence and Rhetoric in Euripides' Hecuba ----- Classical Skepticism and Postmodern Rhetoric Briefly Rethinking the Fate of Rhetoric ----- Persuasion: Jane Austen's Philosophical Rhetoric ----- Refuting Sartre: Modernism's Equivocation on the Reader ----- Refuting de Man ----- Rhetoric and Ideology ----- Notes ----- Glossary of Greek Rhetorical Terms ----- Bibliography ----- Index. ISBN 0300068387 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

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Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition. From Plato to Postmodernism.
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Kastely, James L.:
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Yale University Press; New Haven and London
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1997
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