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Taming Democracy
Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens
Av Harvey Yunis
Inbunden, 1996
1648 kr
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How does one speak to a large, diverse mass of ordinary, sovereign citizens and persuade them to render wise decisions? For Thucydides, Plato, and Demosthenes, who observed classical Athenian democracy in action, this was an urgent question. Harvey Yunis looks at how these three—historian, …
Fate of Eloquence in the Age of Hume
Av Adam Potkay
Inbunden, 1994
1188 kr
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This engaging and insightful book explores the fate of eloquence in a period during which it both denoted a living oratorical art and served as a major factor in political thought. Seeing Hume's philosophy as a key to the literature of the mid-eighteenth century, Adam Potkay compares the staus of …
Rhetoric Reclaimed
Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition
Inbunden, 1998
715 kr
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Thoroughly embedded in postmodern theory, this book offers a critique of traditional conceptions of the liberal arts, exploring the challenges posed by cultural diversity to the aims and methods of a humanist education. Janet M. Atwill investigates a neglected tradition of rhetoric, exemplified by …
Rhetoric Reclaimed
Aristotle and the Liberal Arts Tradition
Häftad, 2009
460 kr
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Thoroughly embedded in postmodern theory, this book offers a critique of traditional conceptions of the liberal arts, exploring the challenges posed by cultural diversity to the aims and methods of a humanist education. Janet M. Atwill investigates a neglected tradition of rhetoric, exemplified by …
Taming Democracy
Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens
Av Harvey Yunis
Häftad, 1996
545 kr
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How does one speak to a large, diverse mass of ordinary, sovereign citizens and persuade them to render wise decisions? For Thucydides, Plato, and Demosthenes, who observed classical Athenian democracy in action, this was an urgent question. Harvey Yunis looks at how these three—historian, …
