Rhetoric's Earthly Realm: Heidegger, Sophistry, and the Gorgian Kairos

by Bernard Alan Miller

Overview

Plato privileges the realm of absolute reality and truth above and beyond the world of language, discourse, and rhetoric. For Plato, earth harbors the façade of mere appearances and the evils of the bewitching powers of language. In RHETORIC’S EARTHLY REALM: HEIDEGGER, SOPHISTRY, AND THE GORGIAN KAIROS, Bernard Alan Miller counters this intellectual legacy with an innovative and thoroughly conceived theory of rhetoric, one concerned with “earth” in its Heideggerian aspect, complex and multifaceted, at the root of a phenomenology placing the focus on earth as the power of Being itself, whereby it is manifest purely as language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602352117
Publisher:	Parlor Press, LLC
Publication date:	05/07/2011
Series:	Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	395
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Bernard Alan Miller teaches courses in writing, American Indian literature, and freshman composition at Eastern Michigan University. His research and publications have dealt primarily with rhetorical theory, with an emphasis on cross-cultural studies and the various connections between pre-Platonic and postmodern thought. He earned his PhD in 1987 from Purdue University.