From Spoken Wisdom to the Ratio Sophistica

Haase, Fee-Alexandra

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1435775

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From Spoken Wisdom to the Ratio Sophistica

Fee-Alexandra Haase

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July 18, 2009

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This is a cross-cultural study in sophistry as a part of the cultural history of the communication techniques and its function as a discourse concept of intercultural exchange of knowledge since pre-socratic time spread over Europe and the Middle East. In each chapter the cultural forms of sophistry and its main proponents are represented from the time of Plato to Renaissance in the cultures of Europe, in North Africa, and in the Middle East.

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Keywords: Sophistry, cross-cultural communication, Europe, Middle East, cultural studies

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Date posted: July 18, 2009

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Haase, Fee-Alexandra, From Spoken Wisdom to the Ratio Sophistica (July 18, 2009). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1435775 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1435775

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