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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.
- Studies in rhetoric/communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Logos (Philosophy).
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Rhetoric, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Johnstone's interdisciplinary account ably demonstrates that in the ancient world it was both the content and form of speech that most directly inspired, awakened, and deepened the insights comprehended under the notion of wisdom.
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613809445
- 9781282166370
- 1282166379
- 9781611171754
- 161117175X
- OCLC:
- 808381102
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