The Rebirth of Dialogue: Bakhtin, Socrates, and the Rhetorical TraditionDialogue has suffered a long eclipse in the history of philosophy and the history of rhetoric but has enjoyed a rebirth in the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Martin Buber, and Mikhail Bakhtin. Among twentieth-century figures, Bakhtin took a special interest in the history of the dialogue form. This book explores Bakhtin s understanding of Socratic dialogue and the notion that dialogue is not simply a way of persuading others to accept our ideas, but a way of holding ourselves, and others, accountable for all of our thoughts, words, and actions. In supporting this premise, Bakhtin challenges the traditions of argument and persuasion handed down from Plato and Aristotle, and he offers, as an alternative, a dialogical rhetoric that restructures the traditional relationship between speakers and listeners, writers and readers, as a mutual testing, contesting, and creating of ideas. The author suggests that Bakhtin s dialogical rhetoric is not restricted to oral discourse, but is possible in any medium, including written, graphic, and digital. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
RETHINKING THE SOCRATIC DIALOGUE | 3 |
BAKHTIN DIALOGUE AND THE RHETORICAL TRADITION | 6 |
DIALOGICAL RHETORIC AS TESTING CONTESTING AND CREATING IDEAS | 12 |
The Traditional Socrates Dialogue Rhetoric and Dialectic | 17 |
SOCRATES LIFE AND WORK | 18 |
FROM DIALOGUE TO DIALECTIC AND RHETORIC | 21 |
LOGIC AND SOCRATIC NEGATIVE DIALECTICS | 28 |
TESTING PERSONS AND IDEAS | 76 |
Truth as Dialogic Creating a Cultural Hybrid in the Protagoras | 95 |
PROTAGORAS VERSUS SOCRATES? | 98 |
CREATING A CULTURAL HYBRID | 99 |
COOPERATION OR CONTESTATION? | 115 |
Dialogue as Carnival Contesting Cultural and Rhetorical Practices in the Gorgias | 117 |
GORGIAS VERSUS SOCRATES? | 120 |
CONTESTING CULTURAL AND RHETORICAL PRACTICES | 124 |
TESTING CONTESTING AND CREATING IDEAS | 32 |
Mikhail M Bakhtin Dialogical Rhetoric and the Socratic Dialogue | 37 |
BAKHTINS LIFE AND WORKS | 38 |
DIALOGICAL RHETORIC AS AN EXCHANGE OF UTTERANCES | 40 |
BAKHTIN AND THE SOCRATIC DIALOGUE | 45 |
THE SOCRATIC DIALOGUE AS NOVELISTIC | 51 |
READING TEXTS CONTEXTUALLY AND EXTRATEXTUALLY | 63 |
Cultural Conflict and the Testing of Persons and Ideas in the Laches | 67 |
CULTURAL CONFLICT FROM HOMER TO SOCRATES | 70 |
CULTURAL CONFLICT IN THE HOMERIC EPICS | 72 |
THE CONTEST OF THE JUST LIFE | 138 |
Dialogical Rhetoric in Print and Digital Media | 141 |
CULTURAL CONFLICT AND OLDNEW MEDIA | 142 |
TESTING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN PRINTED TEXTS | 146 |
CONTESTING CULTURAL AUTHORITY IN DIGITAL DISCUSSION GROUPS | 150 |
CREATING A DIGITAL COMMUNITY ACROSS A CULTURAL DIVIDE | 156 |
Notes | 163 |
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