Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity
Richard Lim
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.
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Year:
1995
Publisher:
University of California Press
Language:
english
Pages:
296
ISBN 10:
0520085779
ISBN 13:
9780520085770
Series:
Transformation of the Classical Heritage
File:
RAR, 1.20 MB
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english, 1995