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Tables of Contents for Plato's Dream of Sophistry
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editor's Preface
ix
Introduction
1
16
Neoplatonic Sophistry in Late Antiquity
17
29
Philostratus and Eunapius on Philosopher-Sophists
19
7
Desire for Sophistry
26
5
Proclus on the Magic of Rhetoric
31
3
Context for Redefining Pagan Sophistry
34
3
Augustine's Christian Rhetoric
37
9
The Renaissance of Plato and the Idea of Sophistry
46
28
Sophistry and Civic Humanism
48
6
Ficino's Hermetic Plato
54
7
The Sophistry of Love
61
9
Challenges to Diotimean Sophistry
70
4
Plato and the Advancement of Learning
74
29
The End of Ancient Wisdom
76
4
Bacon's Allegorical Ambivalences
80
5
Philosopher-Kings in the Seventeenth Century
85
3
Parker's Baconian Plato
88
7
Rejecting the Mysteries of Plato's Allegories
95
4
A New Plato for a New Age
99
4
Platonic Ambivalence in the German Enlightenment
103
30
Brucker's Revision of Plato
106
4
A Critique of Sophistic (and Platonic) Reason
110
7
Arguing and Obeying
117
4
Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent
121
4
Hegel on Sophistry
125
8
Conclusion: Waking from Plato's Dream
133
16
Bibliography
149
12
Index
161