The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in AmericaNYU Press, 1999 M09 1 - 292 páginas This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. At a time when social movements led by religious leaders, from Louis Farrakhan to Pat Buchanan, are playing a central role in American politics, James Darsey connects this radical tradition with its prophetic roots. |
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... Revolutionaries “shields the patriots from accusations that they reacted paranoiacally or demagogically to England's challenge and it makes understandable the American's bitter resistance to the introduction of a mild program of ...
... Revolutionaries called upon rich, sometimes contradictory traditions, and in so doing, performed the epideictic function of (re)calling community into being out of slumber or lifelessness. It is this powerful act of necromancy that will ...
... Revolutionaries is a faith in the absolute rectitude of their position and in the God-ordered necessity of events that culminated in the appeal that Lucas has called “the apotheosis of American destiny.” According to Merrill Jensen, the ...
... Revolutionaries “operated within a philosophical tradition [which held] that a learned man can see as self-evident a truth which an ignorant and rude man cannot see as self-evident.” Therefore, “the power to see self-evidence was ...
... Revolutionaries. It is this same unwillingness to compromise that is routinely equated with “unreason” by those it opposes. But there is another commonality, one suggested by the idea that prophetic speech is “sanctioned,” that must be ...
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35 | |
Wendell Phillips and | 61 |
The Passion | 85 |
The Word in Darkness III | 111 |
Joe McCarthys Rhetoric | 128 |
The Romantic Vision | 151 |
IO The Seraph and the Snake | 199 |
11 | 211 |
Index | 269 |
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America James Darsey Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |