Reassessing the Rhetoric Revival in Political Theory: Cicero, Eloquence, and the Best Form of Life
This paper provides a critical assessment of what Bryan Garsten has called the ‘rhetoric revival’ in political theory and advances an interpretation of an underappreciated strand of this tradition: Cicero’s ideal of the perfect orator. It argues that, even though the theorists of the ‘rhetoric reviv...
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Helsinki University Press
2015-11-01
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| Series: | Redescriptions |
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| Online Access: | https://journal-redescriptions.org/articles/118 |