Editing Gorgias (section)

===Modern reception===
For almost all of western history, Gorgias has been a marginalized and obscure figure in both philosophical thought and culture at large.{{sfn|Consigny|2001|page=1}} In the nineteenth century, however, writers such as the German philosopher [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]] (1770–1831) and the English classicist [[George Grote]] (1794–1871) began to work to "rehabilitate" Gorgias and the other Sophists from their longstanding reputation as unscrupulous charlatans who taught people how to persuade others using rhetoric for unjust causes.{{sfn|Consigny|2001|page=1}} As early as 1872, the English philosopher [[Henry Sidgwick]] (1838–1900) was already calling this the "old view".{{sfn|Consigny|2001|page=1}} Modern sources continue to affirm that the old stereotype of the Sophists is not accurate.{{sfn|Consigny|2001|page=1}}

Since the late twentieth century, scholarly interest in Gorgias has increased dramatically{{sfn|Consigny|2001|page=1}} and the amount of research conducted on him is even beginning to rival the research on his more traditionally popular contemporary [[Parmenides]].{{sfn|Consigny|2001|page=1}} Gorgias's distinctive writing style, filled with antithesis and figurative language, has been seen as foreshadowing the later development of [[Menippean satire]], as well as, in more recent times, the [[mannerism|mannerist]], [[grotesque]], and [[carnivalesque]] genres.{{sfn|Consigny|2001|page=2}} Several scholars have even argued that Gorgias's thoughts on the nature of knowledge, language, and truth foreshadow the views of modern philosophers such as [[Martin Heidegger]], [[Jacques Derrida]], [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], [[A. J. Ayer]], [[Amélie Rorty]], and [[Stanley Fish]].{{sfn|Consigny|2001|pages=1–2}} Nonetheless, many academic philosophers still ridicule any efforts to portray Gorgias as a serious thinker.{{sfn|Consigny|2001|page=1}}