Listening to the logos : speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece / Christopher Lyle Johnstone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnstone, Christopher Lyle, 1947-

Series:

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logos (Philosophy).

Philosophy, Ancient.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Physical Description:

xii, 300 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2009]

Contents:

Prologue

The Greek stones speak : toward an archaeology of consciousness

Singing the muses' song : myth, wisdom, and speech

Physis, kosmos, logos : presocratic thought and the emergence of nature-consciousness

Sophistical wisdom, Socratic wisdom, and the political life

Civic wisdom, divine wisdom : Isocrates, Plato, and two visions for the Athenian citizen

Speculative wisdom, practical wisdom : Aristotle and the culmination of Hellenic thought

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781570038549

1570038546

OCLC:

326491080