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Tables of Contents for Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
1 Refutation: Rhetoric as a Philosophical Problem
1
28
PART I Socratic and Tragic Skepticism
29
106
2 In Defense of Plato's Gorgias
29
21
3 Persuasion and Refutation: Meno's Challenge
50
29
4 Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Crisis of Rhetoric
79
35
5 Violence and Rhetoric in Euripides' Hecuba
114
21
PART II Classical Skepticism and Postmodern Rhetoric Briefly Rethinking the Fate of Rhetoric
135
124
6 Persuasion: Jane Austen's Philosophical Rhetoric
145
23
7 Refuting Sartre: Modernism's Equivocation on the Reader
168
27
8 Refuting de Man
195
26
9 Rhetoric and Ideology
221
38
Notes
259
12
Glossary of Greek Rhetorical Terms
271
2
Bibliography
273
10
Index
283