Dethroning Sovereign Logology: From Gorgias to Globish.

This article opens by considering a famous line from Gorgias that Cassin repeatedly returns to, namely, a line where Gorgias calls logos a great dunastês. In particular, the article examines Cassin's translation of dunastês as 'sovereign' and demonstrates how describing the logos as a sovereign is c...

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Publicado en:Paragraph Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 72 - 88
Autor principal: Keohane, Oisín
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Publicado: Edinburgh University Press Mar2025
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