Rhetoric's Earthly Realm: Heidegger, Sophistry, and the Gorgian Kairos

Bernard Alan Miller Winner of the Gary Olson JAC Award for Best Book in Rhetorical Theory and Cultural Studies (2012) Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition Edited by Thomas Rickert and Jennifer Bay Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-147-9 (paperback, $34.00); 978-1-60235-148-6 (hardcover, $65.00); 978-1-60235-149-3 (PDF, $19.99), ©2011 by Parlor Press. 197 pages, with notes and bibliography. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book Plato privileges the realm of absolute reality and truth above and beyond the world of language, discourse, and rhetoric.  For Plato, earth harbors the façade of mere appearances and the evils of the bewitching powers of language.  In Rhetoric’s Earthly Realm: Heidegger, Sophistry, and the Gorgian Kairos, Bernard Alan Miller counters this intellectual legacy with an innovative and thoroughly conceived theory of rhetoric, one concerned with “earth” in its Heideggerian aspect, complex and mu