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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... metaphor of the social contract. Robert Bellah has argued that in complex societies, “the legal order in some significant measure becomes a substitute for the religious order.” Such an arrangement allows “matters of ultimate religious ...
... metaphors of drunkenness and slumber, thus intimating the moral failings behind it: “These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused with wine, they stagger ...
... metaphors of vision in Old Testament prophecy suggests a rhetoric of showing.” In the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle treats those truths which are susceptible, not to persuasion or argument, but to “demonstration” as the most common ...
... metaphor, a purification. As Leo Strauss reminds us, “In every attempt at harmonization, in every synthesis however impressive, one of the two opposed elements is sacrificed, more or less subtly but in any event surely, to the other ...
... metaphorical expression of a second birth to a life of prophecy. William James wrote of the process of being twice-born as an element involved in the unification of the self: Now in all of us, however constituted, but to a degree the ...
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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 |