Speaking for the polis - Info and Reading Options
Isocrates' rhetorical education
By Takis Poulakos
"Speaking for the polis" was published by University of South Carolina Press in 1997 - Columbia, S.C, it has 128 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Speaking for the polis” Metadata:
- Title: Speaking for the polis
- Author: Takis Poulakos
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 128
- Publisher: ➤ University of South Carolina Press
- Publish Date: 1997
- Publish Location: Columbia, S.C
“Speaking for the polis” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Ancient Oratory - Ancient Rhetoric - Community life - Criticism and interpretation - Education, Greek - Greek Education - History and criticism - Oratory, Ancient - Rhetoric, Ancient - Social conditions - Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek - Isocrates - Athens (greece), social conditions - Athens (greece), history - History
- People: Isocrates
- Places: Athens - Athens (Greece) - Greece
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xiii, 128 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL659549M - OL2631804W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 36776384
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 97004865
- ISBN-10: 1570031770
- All ISBNs: 1570031770
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"Speaking for the polis" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Rhetoric and social cohesion : the "hymn to logos"
- 2- Speaking like a citizen : citizenship, leadership, and community in Nicocles
- 3- Human agency
- 4- Eloquence and reflection : antidosis
- 5- Public deliberation : Panegyricus
- 6- Educational program.
"Speaking for the polis" Description:
The Open Library:
In this reinterpretation of Isocrates' rhetorical achievements, Takis Poulakos evaluates the Greek orator's educational program from the perspective of rhetorical theory and its relation to sociopolitical practices. Illumining Isocrates' effort to reformulate sophistic conceptions of rhetoric on the basis of the intellectual and political debates of his time, Poulakos contends that the father of humanistic studies and rival educator of Plato crafted a version of rhetoric that gave the art an important new role in the ethical and political activities of Athens. Explaining the significance of the term "speaking for the polis," which for Isocrates referred to the rhetorical act of creating and sustaining an illusion of ethicopolitical unity that would make deliberation possible, Poulakos discusses Isocrates' application of sophistical rhetoric to politics. He suggests that Isocrates' rhetoric gained stability through narratives of values and shared commitments, credence through seasoned arguments about plausible solutions to political irresolutions, and weight through the convergence of the speaker's words and quality of character.
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