Who is afraid of the rhētōr? : : An analysis and exegesis of Socrates and Gorgias' conversation in Plato's Gorgias / / Yosef Z. Liebersohn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
• VerfasserIn: Liebersohn, Yosef Z.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: Multiple
• Series: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (179 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; PREFACE --; 1. INTRODUCTION --; 2. SOCRATES' FIRST MOVE (447A1-449B3): ANALYSIS --; 3. SOCRATES' FIRST MOVE: INTERPRETATION --; 4. RHĒTŌR AND DERIVATIVES: MEANINGS AND USAGES --; 5. THE RHĒTORES IN GORGIAS' WORLDVIEW --; 6. THE RHĒTŌR IN GORGIAS' WORLDVIEW --; 7. GORGIAS' PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM: THE VACILLATION OF THE ARTIST --; 8. SOCRATES' SECOND MOVE 449B4-461B2: ANALYSIS --; 9. SOCRATES' SECOND MOVE: INTERPRETATION --; 10. SOCRATES' PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM: THE VACILLATION OF THE ART --; 11. POSSIBLE OBJECTIONS --; 12. WITH A VIEW TO THE REST OF THE GORGIAS --; 13. SUMMARY --; 14. APPENDICES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463235925; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463235925
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Yosef Z. Liebersohn.

This book concentrates on the conversation between Socrates and Gorgias which takes place in the first part of Plato's Gorgias. Scholars have tended to concentrate on the following two conversations held by Socrates with Polus and, especially, with Callicles. This first, relatively short, conversation is usually taken to be a kind of preface coming before Plato's 'real' philosophy. The present study challenges this assumption, arguing that the conversation between Socrates and Gorgias actually anticipates the message of the whole dialogue, which concerns the essence of rhetoric and its implications.