Isocrates and Civic Education

289 Pages·2004·1.36 MB·English

by  Takis Poulakos

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ISOCRATES AND CIVIC EDUCATION
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edited by
takis poulakos and david depew
Isocrates and
Civic Education
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS, AUSTIN
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This book has been supported by an endowment dedicated to classics and the ancient world and
funded by the Areté Foundation; the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; the Dougherty Founda-
tion; the James R. Dougherty, Jr. Foundation; the Rachael and Ben Vaughan Foundation; and the
National Endowment for the Humanities. The endowment has also benefited from gifts by Mark
and Jo Ann Finley, Lucy Shoe Meritt, the late Anne Byrd Nalle, and other individual donors.
Material from Josiah Ober, Political Dissent in Democratic Athens,copyright © 1998 by Prince-
ton University Press, reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
Material from Takis Poulakos, “Isocrates’ Use of doxa,” Philosophy and Rhetoric,vol. 34, no. 1
(2001), pp.61–78, copyright 2001 by the Pennsylvania State University, reproduced by permis-
sion of the publisher.
Material from John Poulakos, “Early Changes in Rhetorical Practice and Understanding: From the
Sophists to Isocrates,” Texte,1989, nos. 8–9, reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Isocrates and civic education / edited by Takis Poulakos and David Depew.— 1. ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn0-292-70219-1
1. Isocrates—Political and social views. 2. Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek—
Greece—Athens—History and criticism. 3. Athens (Greece)—Intellectual life.
4. Education, Greek—Greece—Athens. 5. Education, Ancient.
I. Poulakos, Takis. II. Depew, David J., 1942–
pa4218.i746 2004
885(cid:2).01—dc22
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To Brigittine,
mother of dionysos,
and Mary,
lover of all things hellenic
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CONTENTS
ix Acknowledgments
1 Introduction david depew and takis poulakos
part one: Isocrates and Classical Civic Education
21 1.I, Socrates... The Performative Audacity of Isocrates’
Antidosis josiah ober
44 2.Isocrates’ Civic Education and the Question of Doxa
takis poulakos
part two: Isocrates and the Sophists
69 3.Rhetoric and Civic Education: From the Sophists
to Isocrates john poulakos
84 4.Logosand Power in Sophistical and Isocratean Rhetoric
ekaterina haskins
part three: Isocrates and Plato
107 5.Isocrates’ “Republic” david konstan
125 6.The Education of Athens: Politics and Rhetoric in Isocrates
and Plato kathryn morgan
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part four:Isocrates and Aristotle
157 7.The Inscription of Isocrates into Aristotle’s Practical
Philosophy david depew
186 8.Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Civic Education in Aristotle
and Isocrates eugene garver
part five: Isocrates Then and Now
217 9.Civic Education, Classical Imitation, and Democratic Polity
robert hariman
235 10.Isocrates, Tradition, and the Rhetorical Version of Civic
Education michael leff
255 Works Cited
267 Contributors
271 Index
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The origins of the essays in this volume lie in the 1998 Obermann Human-
ities Symposium, “Civic Education in Classical Athens and Humanities Ed-
ucation Today.” The symposium was held at the University of Iowa under
the sponsorship of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies in Octo-
ber1998. The editors are grateful to the Obermann Center, and especially
to its director, Dr. Jay Semel, for his encouragement and support in every
phase of this project. We are also grateful to the University of Iowa’s Proj-
ect on the Rhetoric of Inquiry for its cooperation and support, as well as to
several cosponsoring departments in the College of Liberal Arts and Sci-
ences: Classics, Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Communication Studies. We are
grateful finally to Humanities Iowa for their grant in support of our sym-
posium, and to Ray Heffner for his thoughtful report to Humanities Iowa.
The volume has benefited greatly from the remarks of those who served
as respondents at this interdisciplinary Humanities Symposium. These col-
leagues include Professors Eve Browning Cole, Philosophy, University of
Minnesota, Duluth; John Finamore, Classics, University of Iowa; Kenneth
Cmiel, History, University of Iowa; the late Michael Calvin McGee, Com-
munication Studies, University of Iowa; Thomas Williams, Philosophy,
University of Iowa; Dennis Moore, Rhetoric, University of Iowa; Diana
Cates, Religion, University of Iowa. We also wish to thank Professors
Helena Dettmer, John Garcia, Peter Green, and Robert Ketterer for chair-
ingthe panels and leading the conversation during the symposium. We wish
to acknowledge our special debt to John Finamore and Mary Depew who
were there for us from the start and through every logistical step on the way.
Much credit is due to the contributors to the volume. Their willingness
to amplify and revise their work to assure a high degree of integration and
mutual illumination among the essays is praiseworthy, as is their patience
during the volume’s long process of gestation. We are grateful to the steady
hands guiding that process of gestation, the Humanities editor of Univer-
sity of Texas Press, Jim Burr, our anonymous reviewers, and especially Pro-
fessor Michael Gagarin, Classics, University of Texas, who believed in and
guided this project from the very beginning.
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