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

Takis Poulakos (Author), Thomas W. Benson (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 1570031770 | ISBN-13: 978-1570031779 | Publication Date: November 1997

Speaking for the Polis considers Isocrates' educational program from the perspective of rhetorical theory and explores its relation to sociopolitical practices. Illumining Isocrates' efforts to reformulate sophistic conceptions of rhetoric on the basis of the intellectual and political debates of his times, Takis 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 demonstrates how Isocrates adopted, transformed, and put to new tasks Protagorean and Gorgianic notions of rhetoric and how he used rhetoric to resolve tensions between political equality and social inequality. Poulakos suggests that Isocrates' rhetorical endeavors gained stability through narratives of values and shared commitments, credence through seasoned arguments about plausible solutions to political discord, and weight through the convergence of the speaker's words and quality of character.

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Takis Poulakos is an associate professor of rhetoric at the University of Iowa. His other books are Greek Classical Rhetorical Theory, Rethinking the History of Rhetoric, The Philosophy of Communication, and Isocrates and Civic Education.

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Hardcover: 139 pages
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press (November 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1570031770
ISBN-13: 978-1570031779
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
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At a time when interest in rhetoric and its history is higher than ever before, a study of Isocrates' rhetoric can serve at least two purposes. Read the first page

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eristic philosophy, rhetorical logos, oratorical practices, rhetorical education, political excellence, political deliberation, rhetorical instruction, epideictic rhetoric, democratic polis, public deliberation

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This book cites 78 books:

Athenian Democracy by A. H. M. Jones on 4 pages
The New Politicians of Fifth-Century Athens by W. Robert Connor in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle on page 64, page 65, and Back Matter
The Classical Athenian Democracy by David Stockton in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Origins of Greek Thought by Jean Pierre Vernant in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)

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The Viability Of The Rhetorical Tradition by Richard Graff on 4 pages
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Relating to Others (Mapping Social Psychology Series) by Steve Duck in Back Matter
Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) by Ekaterina V. Haskins in Back Matter
Prudence: Classical Virtue, Postmodern Practice by Robert Hariman on page 28

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