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«ДЕДАЛЫ РЕЧЕЙ». СОФИСТИКА В СОВРЕМЕННЫХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯХ
“LOGODAIDALOI”: THE SOPHISTIC IN CONTEMPORARY STUDIES

Author(s): Marina Wolf
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Новосибирский государственный университет
Keywords: Ancient philosophy, rhetoric, argumentation, the Presocratics, the Pre-Sophists, the Sophists, Protagoras, Gorgias.

Summary/Abstract: The article reviews a number of recent edition and translations of the Sophists’ fragments (including these published in Russia), and offers a critical bibliographic overview of the sophistic studies in the western (mostly Anglo-American) history of philosophy during the last sixty years. It examines some interpretations of the doctrines of the Older Sophists (esp. Protagoras and Gorgias) and analyses the most conspicuous lines taken by contemporary scholars in relation to these characters.

  • Issue Year: VIII/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 217-248
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: Russian