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A written republic [[electronic resource] ] : Cicero's philosophical politics / / Yelena Baraz



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Autore: Baraz Yelena <1975-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: A written republic [[electronic resource] ] : Cicero's philosophical politics / / Yelena Baraz Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2012
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
Disciplina: 320.1
Soggetto topico: Philosophy, Ancient
Soggetto geografico: Rome Politics and government 265-30 B.C
Soggetto non controllato: Academic Skepticism
Bellum Catilinae
Bellum Iugurthinum
Cato the Younger
Cicero
De Divinatione
De Finibus
De Natura Deorum
De Officiis
De Senectute
Ennius
Julius Caesar
Marcus the Younger
Paradoxa Stoicorum
Quintus Cicero
Rhetorica ad Herennium
Roman elite
Sallust
Topica
Tullia
Tusculan Disputations
action
amicitia
character
civil war
cultural life
dedicatees
dictatorship
intellectual activity
intellectual life
late Roman republic
letters
mos maiorum
negotium
oratory
otium
patriotism
philosophical writings
philosophy
political life
politics
prefaces
public life
readers
rhetoric
translation
treatises
volumen prohoemiorum
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Otiose Otium: The Status of Intellectual Activity in Late Republican Prefaces -- Chapter 2. On a More Personal Note -- Chapter 3. The Gift of Philosophy : The Treatises as Translations -- Chapter 4. With the Same Voice: Oratory as a Transitional Space -- Chapter 5. Reading a Ciceronian Preface: Strategies of Reader Management -- Chapter 6. Philosophy after Caesar: The New Direction -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index
Sommario/riassunto: In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. As he was acutely aware, this was an unusual undertaking for a Roman statesman because Romans were often hostile to philosophy, perceiving it as foreign and incompatible with fulfilling one's duty as a citizen. How, then, are we to understand Cicero's decision to pursue philosophy in the context of the political, intellectual, and cultural life of the late Roman republic? In A Written Republic, Yelena Baraz takes up this question and makes the case that philosophy for Cicero was not a retreat from politics but a continuation of politics by other means, an alternative way of living a political life and serving the state under newly restricted conditions. Baraz examines the rhetorical battle that Cicero stages in his philosophical prefaces--a battle between the forces that would oppose or support his project. He presents his philosophy as intimately connected to the new political circumstances and his exclusion from politics. His goal--to benefit the state by providing new moral resources for the Roman elite--was traditional, even if his method of translating Greek philosophical knowledge into Latin and combining Greek sources with Roman heritage was unorthodox. A Written Republic provides a new perspective on Cicero's conception of his philosophical project while also adding to the broader picture of late-Roman political, intellectual, and cultural life.
Titolo autorizzato: A written republic  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-49451-4
9786613589743
1-4008-4216-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790009803321
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