Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle
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A01=Ekaterina V. Haskins
Aristotelianism
Aristotle
Author_Ekaterina V. Haskins
Category=QDHA
Democritus
Dissoi logoi
Endoxa
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Eudemian Ethics
Euripides
Genre
Isocrates
Philosopher
Philosophy
Political philosophy
Republic (Plato)
Rhetoric
Rhetoric (Aristotle)
The Philosopher
Themistocles
Theory of Forms
Trial of Socrates
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- ISBN 9781570038730
- Weight: 297g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jul 2010
- Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This work offers a provocative reconsideration of two competing classical approaches to discourse, politics, and education. ""Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle"" presents Isocrates' vision of discourse as a worthy rival, rather than a mere precursor, of Aristotle's Rhetoric. Casting Isocrates and Aristotle as opponents in a debate over the character, resources, and ends of rhetorical education, Ekaterina V. Haskins argues that much of what Aristotle had to say about the status of rhetoric and the role of discourse in the life of a Greek city-state may have been an implicit reaction to Isocrates. Haskins finds that Isocrates offers a more comprehensive and culturally attuned theory of civic discourse and education than does Aristotle, whose intellectual project disengages moral philosophy from the contingencies of public culture and introduces rhetoric merely as an art serviceable to a philosophically trained statesman. Haskins terms Isocrates' approach to discourse 'constitutive' and Aristotle's 'instrumental' and shows how the former is more congenial to the goals of contemporary rhetorical theory and pedagogy.
Ekaterina V. Haskins is an associate professor in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
