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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... “fire and strength” of the prophets is as much a part of our cultural inheritance as is the “sweetness and light” of the Greeks, and it is sheer folly to think that we can have an adequate Radical Rhetoric and American Community 7.
... culture so long as we ignore a discursive tradition marked by obvious similarities to those discourses we today term “radical,” the influence of which is often attested to by the radicals themselves in their allusions and quotations. A ...
... cultural assumptions that engendered it. In this set of relationships is the most basic understanding of the discourse. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 explore the appropriation of prophetic forms by American reformers. Each of these chapters is a ...
... cultural moment that is oddly weightless, shadowed by incomplete revolts, haunted by absences . . . in general, by the erosion of that false and devastating universality embodied in the rule of the pyramidal trinity of Father, Science ...
... culture from the early colonial settlements onward to the present, and through much of American history that flow has involved reference to symbols, rhetoric, moral guidance, and an understanding of history derived from the Bible ...
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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 |