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Odious praise : rhetoric, religion, and social thought
- Title
- Odious praise : rhetoric, religion, and social thought / Eric MacPhail.
- Author
- MacPhail, Eric
- Publication
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- 145 pages ; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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, Machiavelli, and Montaigne"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-141) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-2488
- ISBN
- 9780271092331
- 0271092335
- LCCN
- 2021054131
- OCLC
- 1274201885
- Author
- MacPhail, Eric, author.
- Title
- Odious praise : rhetoric, religion, and social thought / Eric MacPhail.
- Publisher
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2022]
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-141) and index.
- Indexed Term
- Epideictic rhetoric
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-2488