Nitoid on appropriating Sophistic thought:

In an article entitled "Dissoi Logoi, Civic Freindship, and the Politics of Education" by Stephen Gencarella Olbrys (full cite to follow in my webliography), the author advocates dissoi logoi as a way through the ideological aporia vexing our current political landscape. He sees rhetoric as "a means to treat seriously and to respond to . . . calls for spirited intellecutual diversity and the problematic question of training in citizenship." He takes dissoi logoi from a binary - arguing both sides of the argument; from a metaphor of balance - implying a "one-to-one correspondent need to establish a right-leaning opinion for every left-leaning one" - to a pluralistic model that "insists upon active and performed engagement with multiple perspectives rather than a mere awareness of, limited exposure to , and eventual isolation from oppositional perspectives."

This reminded me of Jarratt's comparison/contrast of hypotaxis and parataxis in histriography, and can be seen as a practical application of her theory on recasting and appropriating sophistic thought in a pluralistic society. A "dialogue" between/among theorists and practitioners on the appropriation of sophistic thought might be an interesting exercise.