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Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle

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From: Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Date: 20041001
Author:Hoffman, Michael C

Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle by Ekaterina V. Haskins. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004. 172 + xiii pp.

Would the world be a better place if the performance-centered Isocratean tradition of rhetorical education could displace neo-Aristotelian rhetorical theory as the predominant approach to rhetoric in the contemporary university? Following in the footsteps of Takis Poulakos (1997), Ekaterina V. Haskins makes the case that the study and teaching of classical rhetoric would benefit from such a displacement. In Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle she ...

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