9780691123646 - The State of Speech: Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome von Connolly, Joy (5 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Wie Neu. Zustandsbeschreibung: textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed. Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome. Through new readings of Cicero's dialogues and treatises, Joy Connolly shows how his treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. Rhetoric, Connolly argues, sheds new light on Cicero's deepest political preoccupations: the formation of individual and communal identity, the communicative role of the body, and the "unmanly" aspects of politics, especially civility and compromise. XIII,304 Seiten, gebunden (Princeton University Press 2007). Statt EUR 74,90. Gewicht: 582 g - Gebunden/Gebundene Ausgabe.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 304 pages. 9.25x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. Focuses on Rome s practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. This book shows how Cicero s treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition s central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. It is a contribution to the debate ove.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. Through new readings of his dialogues and treatises, Joy Connolly shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. Rhetoric, Connolly argues, sheds new light on Cicero's deepest political preoccupations: the formation of individual and communal identity, the communicative role of the body, and the 'unmanly' aspects of politics, especially civility and compromise. Transcending traditional lines between rhetorical and political theory, The State of Speech is a major contribution to the current debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Instead of a conventional, top-down model of power, it sketches a dynamic model of authority and consent enacted through oratorical performance and examines how oratory modeled an ethics of citizenship for the masses as well as the elite. It explains how imperial Roman rhetoricians reshaped Cicero's ideal republican citizen to meet the new political conditions of autocracy, and defends Ciceronian thought as a resource for contemporary democracy.