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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... cultural root rot bemoaned by contemporary critics on the left and right. The disintegration they decry indicates something missing at the core, something held as fundamental by a sufficient number of us to be worth engaging over, worth ...
... cultural infrastructure seems to be coming apart along with the bridges and roads.” If there is a trace of reason left in the universe, someone, somewhere must be smiling, even amidst the overwhelming dolor, to hear Professor Gitlin ...
James Darsey. the object of Graham's criticism, the engine of the cultural doom. In a 1968 review of Abbie Hoffman's book Revolution for the Hell of It, Jack Newfield contrasted the traditional liberal values of “reason, democracy ...
... cultural life and the state of oratory a significant measure of cultural health. James Boyd White only puts into contemporary ... culture-are defined and made real in performances of language.” In such a conception, the rhetor becomes ...
... culture.” Consideration of the traditional aspects of genre encourages questions of development and evolution, and since they, in turn, suggest a point of origin, consideration of a rhetorical tradition proffers the possibility that the ...
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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 |
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Index | 269 |
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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America James Darsey Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |