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Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle

Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle

Haskins, Ekaterina V.

Paperback

Series: Studies in Rhetoric & Communication

PhilosophyGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 1570038732
ISBN13: 9781570038730
Publisher: Univ Of South Carolina Pr
Published: Aug 1 2009
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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