Isocrates and Civic Education

by Takis Poulakos and David Depew

Civic virtue and the type of education that produces publicly minded citizens became a topic of debate in American political discourse of the 1980s, as it once was among the intelligentsia of Classical Athens. Conservatives such as former National Endowment for the Humanities chairman William Bennett and his successor Lynn Cheney held up the Greek philosopher Aristotle as the model of a public-spirited, virtue-centered civic educator. But according...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292722346
• ISBN13: 9780292722347
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"