Description
Book SynopsisTen leading scholars of Classics, rhetoric, and philosophy offer a pathfinding interdisciplinary study of Isocrates as a civic educator.
Trade ReviewThese varied and probing engagements with Isocrates are a very valuable contribution to our understanding of a figure with whom it remains difficult to come to terms. Readers of
Isocrates and Civic Education will find many fruitful new questions opened up before them. * Polis *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction (David Depew and Takis Poulakos)
- Part One: Isocrates and Classical Civic Education
- 1. I, Socrates . . . The Performative Audacity of Isocrates' Antidosis (Josiah Ober)
- 2. Isocrates' Civic Education and the Question of Doxa (Takis Poulakos)
- Part Two: Isocrates and the Sophists
- 3. Rhetoric and Civic Education: From the Sophists to Isocrates (John Poulakos)
- 4. Logos and Power in Sophistical and Isocratean Rhetoric (Ekaterina Haskins)
- Part Three: Isocrates and Plato
- 5. Isocrates' "Republic" (David Konstan)
- 6. The Education of Athens: Politics and Rhetoric in Isocrates and Plato (Kathryn Morgan)
- Part Four: Isocrates and Aristotle
- 7. The Inscription of Isocrates into Aristotle's Practical Philosophy (David Depew)
- 8. Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Civic Education in Aristotle and Isocrates (Eugene Garver)
- Part Five: Isocrates Then and Now
- 9. Civic Education, Classical Imitation, and Democratic Polity (Robert Hariman)
- 10. Isocrates, Tradition, and the Rhetorical Version of Civic Education (Michael Leff)
- Works Cited
- Contributors
- Index
