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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822472703321

Autore

Johnstone Christopher Lyle <1947->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of South Carolina Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-16637-9

9786613809445

1-61117-175-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Disciplina

180

Soggetti

Logos (Philosophy)

Philosophy, Ancient

Rhetoric, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.