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Plato's dream of sophistry /
- Title
- Plato's dream of sophistry / Richard Marback.
- Author
- Marback, Richard.
- Publication
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c1999.
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Details
- Description
- vi, 163 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in rhetoric/communication
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-159) and index.
- Contents
- Philostratus and Eunapius on philosopher-sophists -- Desire for sophistry -- Proclus on the magic of rhetoric -- Context for redefining pagan sophistry -- Augustine's Christian rhetoric -- Sophistry and civic humanism -- Ficino's hermetic Plato -- The sophistry of love -- Challenges to Diotimean sophistry -- The end of ancient wisdom -- Bacon's allegorical ambivalences -- Philosopher-kings in the seventeenth century -- Parker's Baconian Plato -- Rejecting the mysteries of Plato's allegories -- A new Plato for a new age -- Brucker's revision of Plato -- A critique of sophistic (and Platonic) reason -- Arguing and obeying -- Universal history with a cosmopolitan intent -- Hegel on sophistry.
- ISBN
- 1570032408
- LCCN
- 97045431
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library