Isocrates and Civic Education / / ed. by Takis Poulakos, David Depew.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Depew, David,; Garver, Eugene,; Hariman, Robert,; Haskins, Ekaterina,; Konstan, David,; Leff, Michael,; Morgan, Kathryn,; Ober, Josiah,; Poulakos, John,; Poulakos, Takis,
• HerausgeberIn: Depew, David,; Poulakos, Takis,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (287 p.)

Civic virtue and the type of education that produces publicly minded citizens became a topic of debate in American political discourse of the 1980s, as it once was among the intelligentsia of Classical Athens. Conservatives such as former National Endowment for the Humanities chairman William Bennet...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part One: Isocrates and Classical Civic Education
• 1. I, Socrates . . . The Performative Audacity of Isocrates’ Antidosis
• 2. Isocrates’ Civic Education and the Question of Doxa
• Part Two: Isocrates and the Sophists
• 3. Rhetoric and Civic Education: From the Sophists to Isocrates
• 4. Logos and Power in Sophistical and Isocratean Rhetoric
• Part Three: Isocrates and Plato
• 5. Isocrates’ “Republic”
• 6. The Education of Athens: Politics and Rhetoric in Isocrates and Plato
• Part Four: Isocrates and Aristotle
• 7. The Inscription of Isocrates into Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy
• 8. Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Civic Education in Aristotle and Isocrates
• Part Five: Isocrates Then and Now
• 9. Civic Education, Classical Imitation, and Democratic Polity
• 10. Isocrates, Tradition, and the Rhetorical Version of Civic Education
• Works Cited
• Contributors
• Index