Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation. Letters to Power : : Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals / / Samuel McCormick.
Although the scarcity of public intellectuals among today’s academic professionals is certainly a cause for concern, it also serves as a challenge to explore alternative, more subtle forms of political intelligence. Letters to Power accepts this challenge, guiding readers through ancient, medieval,...
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McCormick, Samuel, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation. Letters to Power : Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals / Samuel McCormick. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2015] ©2012 1 online resource (208 p.) : 1 illustration text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ; 2 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Minor political rhetoric, major western thinkers -- 2 Remaining concealed: learned protest between stoicism and the state -- 3 Mirrors for the queen: exemplary figures on the eve of civil war -- 4 Performative publicity: the critique of private reason -- 5 Hidden behind the dash: techniques of Unrecognizability -- 6 Oppositional politics in the age of academia -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Although the scarcity of public intellectuals among today’s academic professionals is certainly a cause for concern, it also serves as a challenge to explore alternative, more subtle forms of political intelligence. Letters to Power accepts this challenge, guiding readers through ancient, medieval, and modern traditions of learned advocacy in search of persuasive techniques, resistant practices, and ethical sensibilities for use in contemporary democratic public culture. At the center of this book are the political epistles of four renowned scholars: the Roman Stoic Seneca the Younger, the late-medieval feminist Christine de Pizan, the key Enlightenment thinker Immanuel Kant, and the Christian anti-philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. Anticipating much of today’s online advocacy, their letter-writing helps would-be intellectuals understand the economy of personal and public address at work in contemporary relations of power, suggesting that the art of lettered protest, like letter-writing itself, involves appealing to diverse, and often strictly virtual, audiences. In this sense, Letters to Power is not only a nuanced historical study but also a book in search of a usable past. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023) LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric. bisacsh 978-0-271-05074-4. Christine de Pizan. Immanuel Kant Søren. Kierkegaard moral. Public Intellectuals Seneca. Rhetoric politics. Samuel McCormick. advocacy. and Democratic Deliberation Series. philosophy Rhetoric. philosophy persuasion. philosophy political. political science. resistance letter-writing. the Younger. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783110745269 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271072197?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271072197 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271072197/original |
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