UID:
almahu_9949982131002882
Format:
1 online resource (303 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520378384
Series Statement:
Transformation of the Classical Heritage Series ; v.23
Content:
Richard Lim explores the importance of verbal disputation in Late Antiquity, offering a rich socio-historical and cultural examination of the philosophical and theological controversies. He shows how public disputation changed with the advent of Christianity from a means of discovering truth and self-identification to a form of social competition and "winning over" an opponent. He demonstrates how the reception and practice of public debate, like other forms of competition in Late Antiquity, were closely tied to underlying notions of authority, community and social order. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
Note:
Cover -- Series Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Diffusion of the Logos -- 2. Disputation, Dialectic, and Competition among Platonist Philosophers -- 3. Manichaeans and Public Disputation in Late Antiquity -- 4. Dialectic, Questioning, and Community in the Anomoean Controversy -- 5. Meddlesome Curiosity, Mystification, and Social Order in Late Antiquity -- 6. "Non in sermone regnum Dei": Fifth-Century Views on Debate at Nicaea -- 7. The Containment of the Logos -- 8. Epilogue -- Appendix: Chronological Chart -- Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Lim, Richard Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity Berkeley : University of California Press,c2018 ISBN 9780520301399
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
