Rhetoric Review Jan 2016

Twenty-Five Years after “Did Plato CoinRhêtorikê?”: An Episodic Memoir

Edward Schiappa Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Abstract

Edward Schiappa published a series of articles and a book in 1990 and 1991 that, collectively, challenged the dominant narrative concerning the Older Sophists and early Greek Rhetorical Theory as well as calling into question certain revisionist historical accounts. In this essay the author provides a narrative about those projects and the responses they elicited in the hope that it provides insights about the production of those publications, as well as an opportunity to revisit certain theoretical and methodological concerns that continue to be relevant to historians of rhetoric and philosophy.

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Rhetoric Review
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2016-01-02
DOI
10.1080/07350198.2016.1107822
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classical rhetoric modern rhetorical theory rhetorical criticism
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  1. Schiappa (2017)
    The Greeks, Pragmatism, and the Endless Mediation of Rhetoric and Philosophy
    Philosophy & Rhetoric

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