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• W4324005599 abstract "Reviews 301 tions, and its clear articulation of the antifoundationalist position, will make this book a valuable resource for scholars and students alike. Bruce McComiskey The University ofAlabama at Birmingham Bruce McComiskey, Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric, (Carbon­ dale:, Southern Illinois University Press, 2002), xiii + 156 pp. Contributing to the conversation about rereading/rewriting the his­ tory of rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey's Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric clearly summarizes the raging and wide-ranging debates regarding the use value of revisiting the Sophists; compellingly argues for a historiographical methodology, which he terms neosophistic appropriation; re-reads Gor­ gias on his own terms, rather than Plato's; and, finally, attempts to realize his own methodology by rethinking Gorgias's (potential) contribution to contemporary pedagogical and political ends (p. 1). Recapping the seminal arguments of the past several decades regarding scholarly attempts to redeem the Sophists from their Platonic condemna­ tion and to reclaim their practices and theories, McComiskey's summary will surely find an appropriate home in graduate seminars on the history of rhetoric. Working with and against Edward Schiappa's criticism of particu­ lar neosophistic research (but curiously neglecting John Poulakos's response to same), McComiskey offers neosophistic appropriation as a corrective to Schiappa's (via Richard Rorty) methodological taxonomy of histori­ cal reconstruction and rational reconstruction. Although McComiskey agrees with Schiappa that we must maintain a clear distinction between the goals and methods of historical scholarship that interprets ancient doc­ trines and 'neo'historical scholarship that appropriates ancient doctrines for contemporary purposes (p. 8), he argues, in contrast, that neosophistic appropriation is methodologically distinct from rational reconstructive ap­ proaches insofar as neosophistic appropriation writers search the past for contributions to modern theoretical problems and problematics (p. 10). Although, McComiskey further argues, all neosophists engage in the critical act of appropriation, not all neosophists appropriate ancient doctrines in the same way (p. 11). Identifying three different approaches, McComiskey ultimately values and identifies with the third. The first approach appropriate [s] Plato's characterization...either valuing Plato's misrepresentations or disparaging them (p. 11). The second approach put[s] aside Plato's mis­ representations of sophistic doctrines, appropriating doctrines instead from actual sophistic texts and historical interpretations of them in order to find common threads among the 'older sophists' and contemporary composition and rhetorical theorists (p. 11). And the third approach, although similar to the second in purpose, attempts to understand the unique contributions 302 RHETORICA of individual sophists...to contemporary rhetorical theory and composition, (p. 11, emphasis added). Claiming that the more specific the appropria­ tion, the stronger the resulting neosophistic rhetoric, McComiskey turns his attention to a reappropriation of the Sophist Gorgias. Part One of Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric provides a provoca­ tive rereading of Gorgias's On Non-Existence, the Encomium ofHelen, and the Defense of Palamedes, arguing that, read together, they constitute a holis­ tic statement about communal and ethical uses of logos, a statement that runs counter to Plato's (mis)representation of it in his dialogue the Gor­ gias (p. 12). Chapter 1, then, argues compellingly that Plato misrepresents Gorgias's theory of rhetoric as foundational, specifically as based on a foun­ dational epistemology. For example, as McComiskey points out, Gorgias, in the Palemedes, uses a form of the Greek eido to express the concept of knowl­ edge, which implies an understanding that is derived empirically from a situation; whereas Plato's use of episteme implies an understanding that exists prior to any given situation in which it might be applied (pp. 24-5). Hence, McComiskey's rereading of the specific Sophist, Gorgias, and the specific sophistic text, exemplifies a strong, neosophistic approach. This rereading allows us to see how Plato's misappropriation of Gorgias serves to make Gorgias's rhetorical method based on kairos, or the right moment, seem absurd (p. 12). McComiskey's similar approaches to the Helen and the Palemedes provide the epistemological, rather than foundational, grounding for a nascent theory of rhetoric, complete with its negative and positive uses (p. 12). That is, we, appropriating Gorgias, do not need an epistemological foundation to practice rhetoric. We can read/reappropriate, he argues, the Helen to see where rhetoric..." @default.
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