John Poulakos
Biographic Data
| ID | 5595005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Poulakos |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Poulakos |
| SIGNATURE | POULAKOS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Isocrates and Civic Education
Go Tell Alcibiades
Plato's Symposium is a significant but neglected part of his elaborate and complex attitude toward rhetoric. Unlike the intellectual discussion of the Gorgias or the unscripted conversation of the Phaedrus, the Symposium stages a feast celebrating and driven by the forces of Eros. A luxuriously stylish performance rather than a rational critique or a bemused apotheosis of rhetoric, the Symposium asks to be read within a performative tradition tha…
Mistaking Nietzsche
(2002). Mistaking Nietzsche: Rhetoric and the epistemic pest. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 121-127
Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece
Rhetoric denuded and redressed
Nietzsche and the aesthetics of rhetoric
This essay addresses the debate over rhetoric's epistemic status in terms of Nietzsche's critique of epistemology. Asserting that no discursive effort can escape its own rhetoricity and that all discourse is based on aesthetic impulses, the essay suggests that Nietzsche's aestheticism provides an alternative to the aforementioned debate. Taking this alternative seriously, the essay focuses on the differences between two rhetorics: the epistemic a…
Books reviews
MITEINANDER SPRECHEN UND HANDELN: FESTSCHRIFT FÜR HELLMUT GEISSNER. Edited by Edith Slembek. Frankfurt (Main): Scriptor Verlag, 1986; pp. 360. REALISM AND RELATIVISM: A PERSPECTIVE ON KENNETH BURKE. By Robert L. Heath. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986; pp. xi + 270. $34.95. THE INVENTION OF ATHENS: THE FUNERAL ORATION IN THE CLASSICAL CITY. By Nicole Loraux, translated from the French by Alan Sheridan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,…
Argument, Practicality, and Eloquence in Isocrates' Helen
Gorgias’ and Isocrates’ use of the encomium
This essay compares the Encomium of Helen by Gorgias and the Helen of Isocrates in order to show how epideictic rhetoric in general and the encomium in particular were conceived at the beginning of the history of rhetoric. The analysis suggests that during the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C., genres were not rigid molds to be used mechanically but normative types sufficiently stable to warrant observance and sufficiently elastic to adm…
Rhetoric, the sophists, and the possible
This essay argues that the rhetoric of the Sophists exhibits a distinct preference for the world of possibility. As such, it is different from Aristotle's rhetoric, which privileges the world of actuality. After showing how this is so, the essay compares the sophistical and the Aristotelian versions of rhetoric by discussing their respective implications for language and persuasion. The conclusion reached is that the Aristotelian version, althoug…
Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric
When Hegel undertook to reanimate the Sophists,1 he established with poignant observations that the message of those itinerant teachers of culture was a naturai as well as a necessary link between Pre-Socratic (especially Anaxagoran) and Platonic thought.2 Thus, he endowed their views with intellectual integrity on the one hand, and gave them a place in the history of philosophy on the other. The recent plenitude of sophistic studies shows that H…
Nietzsche and the aesthetics of rhetoric
This essay addresses the debate over rhetoric's epistemic status in terms of Nietzsche's critique of epistemology. Asserting that no discursive effort can escape its own rhetoricity and that all discourse is based on aesthetic impulses, the essay suggests that Nietzsche's aestheticism provides an alternative to the aforementioned debate. Taking this alternative seriously, the essay focuses on the differences between two rhetorics: the epistemic a…
Rhetoric, the sophists, and the possible
This essay argues that the rhetoric of the Sophists exhibits a distinct preference for the world of possibility. As such, it is different from Aristotle's rhetoric, which privileges the world of actuality. After showing how this is so, the essay compares the sophistical and the Aristotelian versions of rhetoric by discussing their respective implications for language and persuasion. The conclusion reached is that the Aristotelian version, althoug…
Gorgias’ and Isocrates’ use of the encomium
This essay compares the Encomium of Helen by Gorgias and the Helen of Isocrates in order to show how epideictic rhetoric in general and the encomium in particular were conceived at the beginning of the history of rhetoric. The analysis suggests that during the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C., genres were not rigid molds to be used mechanically but normative types sufficiently stable to warrant observance and sufficiently elastic to adm…
Rhetoric, the sophists, and the possible
This essay argues that the rhetoric of the Sophists exhibits a distinct preference for the world of possibility. As such, it is different from Aristotle's rhetoric, which privileges the world of actuality. After showing how this is so, the essay compares the sophistical and the Aristotelian versions of rhetoric by discussing their respective implications for language and persuasion. The conclusion reached is that the Aristotelian version, althoug…
Argument, Practicality, and Eloquence in Isocrates' Helen
Gorgias’ and Isocrates’ use of the encomium
This essay compares the Encomium of Helen by Gorgias and the Helen of Isocrates in order to show how epideictic rhetoric in general and the encomium in particular were conceived at the beginning of the history of rhetoric. The analysis suggests that during the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C., genres were not rigid molds to be used mechanically but normative types sufficiently stable to warrant observance and sufficiently elastic to adm…
Books reviews
MITEINANDER SPRECHEN UND HANDELN: FESTSCHRIFT FÜR HELLMUT GEISSNER. Edited by Edith Slembek. Frankfurt (Main): Scriptor Verlag, 1986; pp. 360. REALISM AND RELATIVISM: A PERSPECTIVE ON KENNETH BURKE. By Robert L. Heath. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986; pp. xi + 270. $34.95. THE INVENTION OF ATHENS: THE FUNERAL ORATION IN THE CLASSICAL CITY. By Nicole Loraux, translated from the French by Alan Sheridan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,…
Nietzsche and the aesthetics of rhetoric
This essay addresses the debate over rhetoric's epistemic status in terms of Nietzsche's critique of epistemology. Asserting that no discursive effort can escape its own rhetoricity and that all discourse is based on aesthetic impulses, the essay suggests that Nietzsche's aestheticism provides an alternative to the aforementioned debate. Taking this alternative seriously, the essay focuses on the differences between two rhetorics: the epistemic a…
Rhetoric denuded and redressed
Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece
Mistaking Nietzsche
(2002). Mistaking Nietzsche: Rhetoric and the epistemic pest. Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 121-127
Go Tell Alcibiades
Plato's Symposium is a significant but neglected part of his elaborate and complex attitude toward rhetoric. Unlike the intellectual discussion of the Gorgias or the unscripted conversation of the Phaedrus, the Symposium stages a feast celebrating and driven by the forces of Eros. A luxuriously stylish performance rather than a rational critique or a bemused apotheosis of rhetoric, the Symposium asks to be read within a performative tradition tha…
Isocrates and Civic Education
Toward a Sophistic Definition of Rhetoric
When Hegel undertook to reanimate the Sophists,1 he established with poignant observations that the message of those itinerant teachers of culture was a naturai as well as a necessary link between Pre-Socratic (especially Anaxagoran) and Platonic thought.2 Thus, he endowed their views with intellectual integrity on the one hand, and gave them a place in the history of philosophy on the other. The recent plenitude of sophistic studies shows that H…
Philosophy (10 works) · Rhetoric (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works)