A Written Republic [electronic resource] : Cicero's Philosophical Politics

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서명/저자사항	A Written Republic [electronic resource]: Cicero's Philosophical Politics / Yelena Baraz.
개인저자	Baraz, Yelena.
발행사항	Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
형태사항	1 online resource (267 p.).
기타형태 저록	Print version: Baraz, Yelena A Written Republic : Cicero's Philosophical Politics Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012 9780691153322
ISBN	9781400842162 (electronic bk.) 1400842166 (electronic bk.) 1280494514 9781280494512
내용주기	Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Translations; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Otiose Otium: The Status of Intellectual Activity in Late Republican Prefaces; Cicero's Ennius, or Anxiety about Too Much Philosophy; Sallust, or Anxiety about Writing; Rhetorica ad Herennium, or Anxiety about Status; CHAPTER TWO: On a More Personal Note: Philosophy in the Letters; Philosophy as a Basis for Action; Philosophy and Politics; Writing as a Primary Occupation; The Consolation of Philosophy; CHAPTER THREE: The Gift of Philosophy: The Treatises as Translations. The Shape of Translation: Tusculans IWhy Translation? De Finibus I; CHAPTER FOUR: With the Same Voice: Oratory as a Transitional Space; The Philosophizing Orator: A Stoic or an Academic? Cato versus Cicero in the Paradoxa Stoicorum; Always Philosophizing: Cicero as the Linchpin in De Natura Deorum I; From Oratory to Philosophy: The Logic of Tusculan Disputations I; CHAPTER FIVE: Reading a Ciceronian Preface: Strategies of Reader Management; Making Friends with Strangers: Topica; Drawing Strength from Tradition: De Senectute; CHAPTER SIX: Philosophy after Caesar: The New Direction. Looking Back: De Divinatione IIFrom the Ides to the De Officiis; From Quintus the Elder to Marcus the Younger: The Pattern of Dedications; The Final Encounter: De Officiis; Bibliography; Index Locorum; General Index
요약	In the 40s BCE, during his forced retirement from politics under Caesar's dictatorship, Cicero turned to philosophy, producing a massive and important body of work. As he was acutely aware, this was an unusual undertaking for a Roman statesman because Romans were often hostile to philosophy, perceiving it as foreign and incompatible with fulfilling one's duty as a citizen. How, then, are we to understand Cicero's decision to pursue philosophy in the context of the political, intellectual, and cultural life of the late Roman republic? In A Written Republic, Yelena Baraz takes up this question a.
주제명(개인명)	Cicero, Marcus TulliusPolitical and social views.
주제명(지명)	Rome --Politics and government --265-30 B.C.
일반주제명	Cicero, Marcus Tullius --Political and social views. Rome --Politics and government --265-30 B.C. History. Political Science. Philosophy, Ancient. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference
분류기호(DDC)	320.1
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