Exhortations to Philosophy. The Protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle. - COLLINS, J. H.,
The Protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle
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[Collins] succeeds in highlighting the carefulness by which fourth-century philosophers addressed possible students of their new form of education that required an unseen commitment to the art and challenged traditional values of political prestige. The book offers valuable new perspectives and refreshing insights about important texts, especially concerning the interplay of intradiegetic and extradiegetic narrative levels. Less attention is given to the problem of identifying the ideal reader of these texts, the study of which would be a useful supplement to contextualise the results of this welcome addition to the scholarship on the intellectual world of fourth-century Athens. Thomas G.M. Blank, The Classical Review |a 22/03/2019 (Publisher's information).
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2015Uitgever: Oxford University Press320 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0199358591ISBN-13: 9780199358595Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2015. 320p. Hardback.New Titel: Exhortations to Philosophy. The Protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle. Auteur: COLLINS, J. H.,
This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging genre of the 'protreptic' (literally, 'turning' or 'converting'). Simply put, protreptic discourse uses a rhetoric of conversion that urges a young person to adopt a specific ph...
This book is a study of the literary strategies which the first professional philosophers used to market their respective disciplines. Philosophers of fourth-century BCE Athens developed the emerging genre of the 'protreptic' (literally, 'turning' or 'converting'). Simply put, protreptic discourse uses a rhetoric of conversion that urges a young person to adopt a specific ph...
