The State of Speech : Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome
Main description: Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The f...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Sprache: | Anglais |
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Princeton ; N.J :
Princeton University Press
2009.
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La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 320 p. Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Philosophie |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • The state of speech, rhetoric and political thought in Ancient Rome, Joy Connolly, 2009, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University press, 978-1-4008-2794-7 |
| Zusammenfassung: | Main description: Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. Through new readings of his dialogues and treatises, Joy Connolly shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. Rhetoric, Connolly argues, sheds new light on Cicero's deepest political preoccupations: the formation of individual and communal identity, the communicative role of the body, and the "unmanly" aspects of politics, especially civility and compromise. Transcending traditional lines between rhetorical and political theory, The State of Speech is a major contribution to the current debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Instead of a conventional, top-down model of power, it sketches a dynamic model of authority and consent enacted through oratorical performance and examines how oratory modeled an ethics of citizenship for the masses as well as the elite. It explains how imperial Roman rhetoricians reshaped Cicero's ideal republican citizen to meet the new political conditions of autocracy, and defends Ciceronian thought as a resource for contemporary democracy |
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| Beschreibung: | La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : 320 p. Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Philosophie |
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| ISBN: | 9781400827947 |
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