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Odious Praise : Rhetoric, Religion, and Social Thought /
"Reassesses the genre of epideictic rhetoric from antiquity to the Renaissance by looking at a series of texts that exploit the potential of praise to undermine consensus and to challenge the normative values of society. The authors covered range from Isocrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Erasmus,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Isocrates and the genealogy of odious praise
- Platonic values : Polycrates and the politics of epideictic
- Ciceronian values : Cicero and the praise of Latin
- Church values : Lorenzo Valla and the praise of Thomas Aquinas
- Religion and the limits of praise : Isocrates and the praise of superstition.