Listening to the logos : speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece / / Christopher Lyle Johnstone
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| Autore: |
Johnstone Christopher Lyle <1947->
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| Titolo: |
Listening to the logos : speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece / / Christopher Lyle Johnstone
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| Pubblicazione: | Columbia, : University of South Carolina Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 180 |
| Soggetto topico: | Logos (Philosophy) |
| Philosophy, Ancient | |
| Rhetoric, Ancient | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Listening to the logos |
| ISBN: | 1-282-16637-9 |
| 9786613809445 | |
| 1-61117-175-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822472703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in rhetoric/communication.