4. Logos and Power in Sophistical and Isocratean Rhetoric

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Isocrates and Classical Civic Education
6. 1. I, Socrates . . . The Performative Audacity of Isocrates’ Antidosis 21
7. 2. Isocrates’ Civic Education and the Question of Doxa 44
8. Part Two: Isocrates and the Sophists
9. 3. Rhetoric and Civic Education: From the Sophists to Isocrates 69
10. 4. Logos and Power in Sophistical and Isocratean Rhetoric 84
11. Part Three: Isocrates and Plato
12. 5. Isocrates’ “Republic” 107
13. 6. The Education of Athens: Politics and Rhetoric in Isocrates and Plato 125
14. Part Four: Isocrates and Aristotle
15. 7. The Inscription of Isocrates into Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy 157
16. 8. Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Civic Education in Aristotle and Isocrates 186
17. Part Five: Isocrates Then and Now
18. 9. Civic Education, Classical Imitation, and Democratic Polity 217
19. 10. Isocrates, Tradition, and the Rhetorical Version of Civic Education 235
20. Works Cited 255
21. Contributors 267
22. Index 271