Plato privileges the realm of absolute reality and truth above and beyond the world of language, discourse, and rhetoric. For Plato, earth harbors the facade 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 multifaceted, at the root of a phenomenology placing the focus on earth as the power of Being itself, whereby it is manifest purely as language. Here, earth means "native soil," a place of the "rootedness" of a people, where the forces of nature and culture are joined in language to constitute a community. In Miller"s view, language is not only an ontological process comprising the very dynamic of our being but, more critical to RHETORIC"S EARTHLY REALM, it is a power whose rhetorical dimensions are...