Speaking for the Polis: Isocrates' Rhetorical Education (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) - Hardcover

Speaking for the Polis: Isocrates' Rhetorical Education.

Zustand: Sehr gut. XIII, 128 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - In this reinterpretation of Isocrates rhetorical achievements, Takis Poulakos evaluates the Greek orators 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. Poulakos analyzes discourses of citizenship, power, desire, moderation, and excess to consider their configuration by Protagoras and Gorgias into two distinct conceptions of rhetorical instruction: their relation to Athenian imperialistic policies and, following the fall of the empire, to Athens coalition-building efforts; and their orchestration by Isocrates into a version of rhetorical education that looks to rhetoric as the art of deliberating the good and the possible for the polis. Poulakos demonstrates how Isocrates adopted, transformed, and put to new tasks the Protagorean and Gorgianic notions of rhetoric and how he placed a particular emphasis on the use of rhetoric to address problems of division and difference and to resolve the tension between political equality and social inequality that characterized Athenian democracy. 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 speakers words and quality of character. - TAKIS POULAKOS was born and grew up in Nafplion, Greece. He is an associate professor of rhetoric at the University of Iowa, the editor of Rethinking the History of Rhetoric, and the author of many scholarly articles on classical rhetoric. ISBN 9781570031779 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 378 Original cloth with dust jacket. Artikel-Nr. 1180182

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