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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James Darsey. leap of faith in reason. In politics, the rule of reason is expressed in the rationalist metaphor of the ... political roots of a society, its fundamental laws, its foundational principles, its most sacred covenants. It is ...
... Political authority, he argues, was increasingly identified with “an oratorical ability, not merely to persuade by rational argumentation, but to excite, animate, motivate, and impress. . . . An age preoccupied with efficacious ...
... politics, and a review of the political philosophy that informed the period reveals more evidence of concatenation than of competition.” American colonists held a notion of compact or covenant that was a product of the revolution in ...
... political theory that is evident in the rhetoric of the Levellers in England and in turn in the rhetoric of the Whigs in America.” So it is that the author of “A State of the Rights of the Colonists” begins his account with the 42 ...
... political philosophy reviewed here: the inalienability of rights; the requirement that government, to be legitimate, protect those rights; and the derivation of all government from a sacred compact. This is the philosophy echoed in 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 |