What is it about?
Plato's Gorgias and Timaeus both feature structural interruptions. The argument do not unroll in a linear fashion as they each systematically undermine their own foundations in the attempt to account for that which they are unable to include. The figure of Socrates playing both rolls in the dialectic and the Chora play analogous roles.
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Why is it important?
It demonstrates that philosophy and rhetoric are each structurally dependent on what purports to be their other.
Perspectives
This essay is part of a wider attempt to rethink what is meant by the logos.
Carolina Distinguished Professor Paul Allen Miller
University of South Carolina
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This page is a summary of: Pardon the Interruption, Classical Antiquity, April 2022, University of California Press,
DOI: 10.1525/ca.2022.41.1.51.
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