Speaking for the polis : Isocrates' rhetorical education

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Label

Speaking for the polis : Isocrates' rhetorical education

Title remainder

Isocrates' rhetorical education

Statement of responsibility

Takis Poulakos

Creator

• Poulakos, Takis

Subject

• Athens (Greece) | Social conditions
• Community life
• Community life -- Greece | Athens
• Community life | Greece | Athens
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Education, Greek
• Education, Greek -- Greece | Athens
• Education, Greek | Greece | Athens
• Filosofische aspecten
• Greece -- Athens
• Isocrate, (0435?-0338 av. J.-C.) -- Critique et interprétation
• Isocrates
• Isocrates
• Isocrates -- Criticism and interpretation
• Isocrates | Criticism and interpretation
• Isocrates, v436-v338
• Oratory, Ancient
• Oratory, Ancient
• Oratory, Ancient
• Participation politique -- Grèce | Athènes (Grèce)
• Polis
• Politieke aspecten
• Retorica
• Rhetoric, Ancient
• Rhetoric, Ancient
• Rhetoric, Ancient
• Rhetorik
• Rhetorik
• Rhétorique antique.
• Social conditions
• Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek
• Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- History and criticism
• Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek | History and criticism
• Éducation grecque
• Athens (Greece) -- Social conditions

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--Jacket

Member of

• Studies in rhetoric/communication

Cataloging source

DLC

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PA4218

LC item number

.P68 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography