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Gorgias: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture Paperback - 1998

by Plato; James H. Nichols (Translator)

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With a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato's Greek prose, James H. Nichols, Jr., offers a precise yet unusually readable translation of one of the great Platonic dialogues on rhetoric.

The Gorgias presents an intransigent argument that justice is superior to injustice--to the extent that suffering an injustice is preferable to committing an unjust act. The dialogue contains some of Plato's most significant and famous discussions of major political themes, and focuses dramatically and with unrivaled intensity on Socrates as a political thinker and actor.

Nichols's attention to dramatic detail brings this dialogue to life. Plato's striking variety in conversational address (names and various terms of relative warmth and coolness) is carefully reproduced, as is alteration in tone and implication even in the short responses. The translation renders references to the gods accurately and non-monotheistically for the first time, and includes a fascinating variety of oaths and invocations. Nichols believes that Plato's thought on rhetoric has been largely misunderstood, and he uses his translation as an opportunity to reconstruct the classical position on right relations between thought and public activity.

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  • Title Gorgias: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture
  • Author Plato; James H. Nichols (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • Publication date 1998-10-15
  • ISBN 9780801485275 / 0801485274
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.27 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1230
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Ethics, Political science - Early works to 1800
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98-26833
  • Dewey Decimal Code 170

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James H. Nichols, Jr., is Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. His published work includes a translation of Alexandre Kojeve's Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, also from Cornell.

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