| 14 Feb 2018 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building | |
- Description
Description
Terrence Cave (University of Oxford)
Sophie Read (University of Cambridge)
Today, rhetoric is a dirty word, implying sophistry and seduction by sweetsounding words, rather than by reasoned argument. But though Plato disparaged the sophistic use of rhetoric, he insisted that the art could be practiced philosophically, as a ‘word, written with intelligence in the soul of the learner’ (Phaedrus 276a). This session asks: what would it take to write—and read —the ‘soul’?
Papers are pre-circulated and should be read in advance.
Please contact Dr Ruth Jackson (rej34@cam.ac.uk) to sign up and receive the readings by email.
Open to all. No registration required
Part of Theologies of Reading Research Group Seminar Series
Administrative assistance: gradfac@crassh.cam.ac.uk
