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Author Johnstone, Christopher Lyle, 1947-

Title Listening to the logos [electronic resource] : speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece / Christopher Lyle Johnstone.

Imprint Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 300 p.
Series Studies in rhetoric/communication
Studies in rhetoric/communication.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Logos (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Ancient.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781570038549
9781611171754 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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