The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the Rhetorical Tradition

The Rebirth of Dialogue......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
1. Introduction......Page 10
RETHINKING THE SOCRATIC DIALOGUE......Page 12
BAKHTIN, DIALOGUE, AND THE RHETORICAL TRADITION......Page 15
DIALOGICAL RHETORIC AS TESTING, CONTESTING, AND CREATING IDEAS......Page 21
2. The Traditional Socrates: Dialogue, Rhetoric, and Dialectic......Page 26
SOCRATES’ LIFE AND WORK......Page 27
THE PHILOSOPHICAL/RHETORICAL TRADITION: FROM DIALOGUE TO DIALECTIC AND RHETORIC......Page 30
THE BRITISH EMPIRICAL TRADITION: LOGIC AND SOCRATIC NEGATIVE DIALECTIC......Page 37
THE DIALOGICAL TRADITION: TESTING, CONTESTING, AND CREATING IDEAS......Page 41
3. Mikhail M. Bakhtin, Dialogical Rhetoric, and the Socratic Dialogue......Page 46
BAKHTIN’S LIFE AND WORKS......Page 47
DIALOGICAL RHETORIC AS AN EXCHANGE OF UTTERANCES......Page 49
BAKHTIN AND THE SOCRATIC DIALOGUE......Page 54
THE SOCRATIC DIALOGUE AS NOVELISTIC......Page 60
READING TEXTS CONTEXTUALLY AND EXTRATEXTUALLY......Page 72
4. Cultural Conflict and the Testing of Persons and Ideas in the Laches......Page 76
CULTURAL CONFLICT FROM HOMER TO SOCRATES......Page 79
CULTURAL CONFLICT IN THE HOMERIC EPICS......Page 81
ANACRISIS AND SYNCRISIS: TESTING PERSONS AND IDEAS......Page 85
5. Truth as Dialogic: Creating a Cultural Hybrid in the Protagoras......Page 104
PROTAGORAS VERSUS SOCRATES?......Page 107
COOPERATIVE DISCUSSION: CREATING A CULTURAL HYBRID......Page 108
COOPERATION OR CONTESTATION?......Page 124
6. Dialogue as Carnival: Contesting Cultural and Rhetorical Practices in the Gorgias......Page 126
GORGIAS VERSUS SOCRATES?......Page 129
CARNIVALISTIC DEBATE: CONTESTING CULTURAL AND RHETORICAL PRACTICES......Page 133
DIALOGUE ON THE THRESHOLD: THE CONTEST OF THE JUST LIFE......Page 147
EPILOGUE. Dialogical Rhetoric in Print and Digital Media......Page 150
CULTURAL CONFLICT AND OLD/NEW MEDIA......Page 151
TESTING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN PRINTED TEXTS......Page 155
CONTESTING CULTURAL AUTHORITY IN DIGITAL DISCUSSION GROUPS......Page 159
CREATING A DIGITAL COMMUNITY ACROSS A CULTURAL DIVIDE......Page 165
CHAPTER 1......Page 172
CHAPTER 2......Page 178
CHAPTER 3......Page 185
CHAPTER 4......Page 189
CHAPTER 5......Page 196
CHAPTER 6......Page 201
EPILOGUE......Page 207
Works Cited......Page 214
B......Page 230
C......Page 231
G......Page 232
K......Page 233
P......Page 234
R......Page 236
T......Page 237
Z......Page 238