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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... arguments and actions.” Such a basis for argument makes both possible and necessary a rhetoric that conflates ethos and pathos as Fliegelman suggests, but also logos. Indeed the whole purpose of sacred discourse is truth; all else is ...
... arguments in the decade prior to the convening of the First Continental Congress conjoined several appeals in the same piece of discourse. In 1764, James Otis wrote, “Every British subject born on the continent of America, or in any ...
... arguments is to establish as the most basic rights of the colonists those rights they possessed as men and as subjects antecedent and supercedent to the specific rights granted them by charter. The repeated linkage of these appeals ...
... argument is consistent with the general tenor of the political philosophy reviewed here: the inalienability of ... arguments, referred to “the most solemn and sacred of all covenants; those upon which the existence of societies, and the ...
... argument is, That civil government is of God.” It may at first appear that a conception of government and the laws of government as sacred poses problems for the would-be revolutionary. How can revolution against the government be ...
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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 |