Odious Praise: Rhetoric, Religion, and Social Thought - Hardcover
by Eric MacPhail (Author)
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
Eric MacPhail is Professor of French and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University and editor of the journal Erasmus Studies. His books include The Sophistic Renaissance, Dancing Around the Well, and Religious Tolerance from Renaissance to Enlightenment.
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