Listening to the logos : speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece /
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| Author / Creator: | Johnstone, Christopher Lyle, 1947- |
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| Imprint: | Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2009. |
| Description: | xii, 300 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in rhetoric/communication Studies in rhetoric/communication. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7909851 |
Table of Contents:
- Series Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1. The Greek Stones Speak: Toward an Archaeology of Consciousness
- 2. Singing the Muses' Song: Myth, Wisdom, and Speech
- 3. Physis, Kosmos, Logos: Presocratic Thought and the Emergence of Nature-Consciousness
- 4. Sophistical Wisdom, Socratic Wisdom, and the Political Life
- 5. Civic Wisdom, Divine Wisdom: Isocrates, Plato, and Two Visions for the Athenian Citizen
- 6. Speculative Wisdom, Practical Wisdom: Aristotle and the Culmination of Hellenic Thought
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
