Listening to the logos
Subtitle: speech and the coming of wisdom in ancient Greece
By: Christopher Lyle Johnstone
Series: Studies in rhetoric/communication
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781570038549
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-293) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: The Greek stones speak: toward an archaeology of consciousness; title: Singing the muses' song: myth, wisdom, and speech; title: Physis, kosmos, logos : presocratic thought and the emergence of nature-consciousness; title: Sophistical wisdom, Socratic wisdom, and the political life; title: Civic wisdom, divine wisdom : Isocrates, Plato, and two visions for the Athenian citizen; title: Speculative wisdom, practical wisdom: Aristotle and the culmination of Hellenic thought; title: Epilogue.