The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates

Text, Power, Pedagogy

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Hardcover | 5 June 1995

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The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates offers a sustained interpretation of the Isocratean corpus, showing that rhetoric is a language which the author uses to create a political identity for himself in fourth-century Athens. Dr Too examines how Isocrates' discourse addresses anxieties surrounding the written word in a democratic culture which values the spoken word as the privileged means of political expression. Isocrates makes written culture the basis for a revisionary Athenian politics and of a rhetoric of Athenian hegemony. In addition, Isocrates takes issue with the popular image of the professional teacher in the age of the sophist, combating the negative stereotype of the greedy sophist who corrupts the city's youth in his portrait of himself as teacher of rhetoric. He daringly reinterprets the pedagogue as a figure who produces a discourse which articulates political authority.

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"Students of ancient rhetoric will be very glad that there is now a monograph on Isocrates in English...They will find the book interesting and suggestive..." Bryn Mawr Classical Review "The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates strengthens our understanding of the process by which Isocrates created his literary ethos and the necessity for such a rhetorical display." Rhetoric Review

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Introduction
Isocrates and logos politikos
The unities of discourse
The politics of the small voice
Isocrates in his own write
The pedagogical contract
The politics of discipleship
Brief afterword
Isocrates and Gorgias
Concerning the chariot-team
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