Same as 8:267, 10;301, 20E:230
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Sec. 001 | 12:30-3:00 pm | F | 215 EPB | Poulakos |
In this course we will examine rhetoric in Classical Greece by concentrating on works by Sophists, Isocrates, and Aristotle, as well as on Plato's critique of rhetoric. As we study these works, we will raise questions about rhetoric and its context, i.e., what reciprocal relation we can detect between rhetoric and its evolution, on the one side, and the political, social, cultural, and economic context, on the other side. In addition to examining the historical situatedness of the art of rhetoric, we will also examine classical rhetoric as it pertains to current theoretical conversations in our own times. In other words, our examination of classical rhetoric will be twofold, as rhetoric began and evolved back then, and as rhetoric is talked about at present. So as to facilitate this dual investigation, we will address questions pertaining to the relation of rhetoric to knowledge, deliberation, desire, sexuality, power, display, citizenship, and nationalism.
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