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Table of Contents

  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Literacy, Dramatic Form, Metaphysics: Rereading Plato’s Rhetoric
    • Orality, Literacy, and Rhetorical Beginnings
    • Martin Heidegger and the Critique of Metaphysics in the West
    • Literary-Dramatic Interpretations of Plato
    • Sophists and Sophistry in Plato
    • Plan of the Book
  • 1. The “Cosmetics” of Sophistry: Seeming and Being in the Gorgias
    • The Gorgias Dialogue and the Role of the Analogy
    • The Problem of the Double Mu
    • The Kommi in Kommôtikê: Athenians and Luxury
    • War: The Historic Context and the Thematic Unity of the Gorgias
    • Conclusion
  • 2. The Oral Poet and the Literate Sophist: Divine Madness and Rhetorical Inoculation in the Phaedrus
    • Rhetorical Disunity in the Phaedrus
    • The Speeches in Contrast
    • The Palinode as Epic: Themes, Formulae, Symbols
    • Writing and Rhetoric
    • Conclusion
  • 3. Heraclitean Opposition and Parmenidean Contradiction: Pre-Socratic Ontology and Protagorean Sophistry in the Cratylus, the Theaetetus, and the Euthydemus
    • Heraclitean Etymologies and Protagorean Relativism in the Cratylus
    • The “Man- Measure” Doctrine and Heraclitean Flux in the Theaetetus
    • The “Impossibility of Contradiction” and Parmenidean Nonbeing in the Euthydemus
    • Conclusion
  • 4. Sophistry without Measure, Dialectic without Rhetoric: The Interpretive Dispute in the Protagoras
    • Antilogic, Eristic, Dialectic, and the Protagoras
    • Socrates versus Protagoras: Simonides’s Poem in Its Dialectical Context
    • Socratic Sophistry, Eristic, and Antilogic in the Interpretation of Simonides
    • Conclusion
  • 5. The Rhetoric of Mimêsis: Sophistic Imitation and Seeming in the Republic
    • Mimêsis as Language
    • Mimêsis as Falseness
    • The Dubious Metaphysics of Mimêsis
    • Conclusion
  • 6. Imitators of Truth: The Rhetorical Theories of Onoma and Rhêma in the Sophist and the Cratylus
    • The Stranger’s Method of Division and the Sophist’s Heracliteanism
    • Louis Bassett and the Problem of Onoma and Rhêma
    • Onoma, Rhêma, and the Logos of Mimêsis
    • Onoma and Rhêma, Logos and Mimêsis in the Sophist
    • Conclusion
  • Epilogue. The Past and Future of Plato’s Rhetorical Theory
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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