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Entangled Silences: Accounts of the Spoken Word and the Constitution at Rome Entangled Silences: Accounts of the Spoken Word and the Constitution at Rome
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The Orator: Visible, Multiple, Embedded in Conflict The Orator: Visible, Multiple, Embedded in Conflict
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Cicero: The Divided Self in Action Cicero: The Divided Self in Action
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The Polity The Polity
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Cicero’s Orator: Integrity and Instability in the Rhetorical Republic
Get accessJoy Connolly, American Council of Learned Societies
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Published:20 June 2023
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Abstract
Contemporary political discourse enshrines concord as an ideal at the same time that it treats politics as a contest producing winners and losers. This chapter argues for a clearer normative account of the play of concord and discord in the republic that arises from the experience of oratory as a key element in citizens’ understanding of and engagement in politics. Cicero’s rhetorical dialogues and speeches show how the drive to achieve concordia or consensus thrives within a framing of politics as conflict free from physical violence. Cicero’s texts knit together productive instabilities even as the parts fail to cohere. His citizen is a virtuosic speaker actively mediating the collective will to harmony and acknowledged multiplicity—a person whose patterns of action and thought should have consequences for how we evaluate and design deliberative and judicial institutions. Drawing connections with the civic thinking of Hannah Arendt, this chapter shows that Cicero’s republican citizen is a paradoxical unity of multiple possibilities, habituated to and expressive of the irreducible plurality of the world.
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