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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... social movements: we talk of revolutionary “faith” and “zeal”; we refer to radical leaders as “prophets”; and we analyze radical rhetoric according to its “God terms” and “devil terms.” At the same time, while we admit of the existence ...
... 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 and moral truth ...
... social force of what Richard Weaver has called “uncontested terms.” Uncontested terms are such precisely because the audience is unable or unwilling to question them.” For the ancient peoples of Judah and Israel, the existence of a God ...
... Social Sciences, makes an important distinction between reasonableness and rationality that suggests the rhetorical consequences of absolute logos: “Although radicalism is characteristically rational or at least rationalized,” writes ...
... social identity threatened. . . . Disturbances of system integration endanger continued existence only to the extent that social integration is at stake, that is, when the consensual foundations of normative structures are so much ...
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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 |