Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Many Sides : A Protagorean Approach to the Theory, Practice and Pedagogy of Argument - M. Mendelson

Many Sides

A Protagorean Approach to the Theory, Practice and Pedagogy of Argument

By: M. Mendelson

eText | 29 June 2013

At a Glance

eText


$239.00

or 4 interest-free payments of $59.75 with

 or 

Instant online reading in your Booktopia eTextbook Library *

Why choose an eTextbook?

Instant Access *

Purchase and read your book immediately

Read Aloud

Listen and follow along as Bookshelf reads to you

Study Tools

Built-in study tools like highlights and more

* eTextbooks are not downloadable to your eReader or an app and can be accessed via web browsers only. You must be connected to the internet and have no technical issues with your device or browser that could prevent the eTextbook from operating.

Many Sides is the first full-length study of Protagorean antilogic, an argumentative practice with deep roots in rhetorical history and renewed relevance for contemporary culture.

Founded on the philosophical relativism of Protagoras, antilogic is a dynamic rather than a formal approach to argument, focused principally on the dialogical interaction of opposing positions (anti-logoi) in controversy. In ancient Athens, antilogic was the cardinal feature of Sophistic rhetoric. In Rome, Cicero redefined Sophistic argument in a concrete set of dialogical procedures. In turn, Quintilian inherited this dialogical tradition and made it the centrepiece of his own rhetorical practice and pedagogy.

Many Sides explores the history, theory, and pedagogy of this neglected rhetorical tradition and, by appeal to recent rhetorical and philosophical theory, reconceives the enduring features of antilogical practice in a dialogical approach to argumentation especially suited to the pluralism of our own age and the diversity of modern classrooms.

on
Desktop
Tablet
Mobile

Other Editions and Formats

Paperback

Published: 6th December 2010

More in Epistemology & The Theory of Knowledge

Is God a Mathematician? - Mario Livio

eBOOK

The Basis of Morality - Arthur Schopenhauer

eBOOK

The Book of Memory : Or, How to Live Forever - Mark Rowlands

eBOOK

The Subjective View - William X. Adams

eBOOK