The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America
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. Public discourse in the West is derived from the Greek principles of civility, diplomacy, compromise, and negotiation.On this model, radical speech is often taken to be a sympton of social
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1 Radical Rhetoric and American Community: Threnody for Sophrosyne; Part I; 2 Old Testament Prophecyas Radical Ursprach; 3 Prophecy as Sacred Truth:Self-Evidence and Righteousness inthe American Revolution; 4 Prophecy as Krisis:Wendell Phillips and the Sin of Slavery; 5 The Prophet's Call andHis Burden:The Passion of Eugene V. Debs; Part II; 6 The Word in Darkness; 7 A Vision of the Apocalypse:Joe McCarthy's Rhetoric of the Fantastic; 8 Prophecy as Poetry: TheRomantic Vision of Robert Welch. 9 Secular Argument andthe Language of Commodity:Gay Liberation andMerely Civil Rights10 The Seraph and the Snake; Notes; Index
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