Listening to the logos : speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece /

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Author / Creator:Johnstone, Christopher Lyle, 1947-
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
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ISBN:9781570038549 (cloth : alk. paper)
1570038546 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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