The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates
Text, Power, Pedagogy
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- Author: Yun Lee Too, University of Liverpool
- Date Published: April 1995
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521474061
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The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates offers a sustained interpretation of the Isocratean corpus, showing that rhetoric is a language which the author uses to create a political identity for himself in fourth-century Athens. Dr Too examines how Isocrates' discourse addresses anxieties surrounding the written word in a democratic culture which values the spoken word as the privileged means of political expression. Isocrates makes written culture the basis for a revisionary Athenian politics and of a rhetoric of Athenian hegemony. In addition, Isocrates takes issue with the popular image of the professional teacher in the age of the sophist, combating the negative stereotype of the greedy sophist who corrupts the city's youth in his portrait of himself as teacher of rhetoric. He daringly reinterprets the pedagogue as a figure who produces a discourse which articulates political authority.
Read more- Very little else available on Isocrates
- Offers a sustained reading of all the remaining works of a single author
- Examines the nature of literacy from social, political and literary perspectives
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- Date Published: April 1995
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521474061
- length: 290 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Isocrates and logos politikos
2. The unities of discourse
3. The politics of the small voice
4. Isocrates in his own write
5. The pedagogical contract
6. The politics of discipleship
Brief afterword
Appendix 1. Isocrates and Gorgias
Appendix 2. Concerning the chariot-team.
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