Speaking for the polis
Isocrates' rhetorical education
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Author
Publication
1997 - University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, S.C, South Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
32,000 words, Guess
Page Count
128 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL659549M
- ISBN-101570031770
- OCLC Control Number36776384
- OCLC Control Numberspeakingforpolis0000poul
- Library of Congress Control Number97004865
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- Goodreads600906
- LibraryThing1055230
Classifications
- DDC885/.01
- LCCPA4218 .P68 1997
Description
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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Series Statement
- Studies in rhetoric/communication
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