Joy Connolly: The State of Speech

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Cover: 9780691162256 | The State of Speech | Rhetoric and Political Thought in Ancient Rome

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Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. Through new readings of his dialogues and treatises, Joy Connolly shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. Rhetoric, Connolly argues, sheds new light on Cicero's deepest political preoccupations: the formation of individual and communal identity, the communicative role of the body, and the "unmanly" aspects of politics, especially civility and compromise.

Transcending traditional lines between rhetorical and political theory, The State of Speech is a major contribution to the current debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Instead of a conventional, top-down model of power, it sketches a dynamic model of authority and consent enacted through oratorical performance and examines how oratory modeled an ethics of citizenship for the masses as well as the elite. It explains how imperial Roman rhetoricians reshaped Cicero's ideal republican citizen to meet the new political conditions of autocracy, and defends Ciceronian thought as a resource for contemporary democracy.

Über den Autor

Joy Connolly is assistant professor of classics at New York University. She is the author of Talk about Virtue (forthcoming, Duckworth), a book about Roman political theory.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	322
ISBN-13:	9780691162256
ISBN-10:	0691162255
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Connolly, Joy
Hersteller:	Princeton University Press
Maße:	234 x 156 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Joy Connolly
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.12.2013
Gewicht:	0,55 kg

preigu-id: 107812913

Über den Autor

Joy Connolly is assistant professor of classics at New York University. She is the author of Talk about Virtue (forthcoming, Duckworth), a book about Roman political theory.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	322
ISBN-13:	9780691162256
ISBN-10:	0691162255
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Connolly, Joy
Hersteller:	Princeton University Press
Maße:	234 x 156 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Joy Connolly
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.12.2013
Gewicht:	0,55 kg