Words on Fire
Eloquence and Its Conditions
Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-04577-3 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-04577-3 (ISBN)
Why is political rhetoric broken–and how can it be fixed? Ranging from Cicero's Rome to modern polarization, Words on Fire is a new history of eloquence from political theorist and speechwriter Rob Goodman. It offers a powerful critique of today's political language–and shows how the struggle over the meaning of eloquence has shaped our world.
Why is political rhetoric broken – and how can it be fixed? Words on Fire returns to the origins of rhetoric to recover the central place of eloquence in political thought. Eloquence, for the orators of classical antiquity, emerged from rhetorical relationships that exposed both speaker and audience to risk. Through close readings of Cicero – and his predecessors, rivals, and successors – political theorist and former speechwriter Rob Goodman tracks the development of this ideal, in which speech is both spontaneous and stylized, and in which the pursuit of eloquence mitigates political inequalities. He goes on to trace the fierce disputes over Ciceronian speech in the modern world through the work of such figures as Burke, Macaulay, Tocqueville, and Schmitt, explaining how rhetorical risk-sharing has broken down. Words on Fire offers a powerful critique of today's political language – and shows how the struggle over the meaning of eloquence has shaped our world.
Why is political rhetoric broken – and how can it be fixed? Words on Fire returns to the origins of rhetoric to recover the central place of eloquence in political thought. Eloquence, for the orators of classical antiquity, emerged from rhetorical relationships that exposed both speaker and audience to risk. Through close readings of Cicero – and his predecessors, rivals, and successors – political theorist and former speechwriter Rob Goodman tracks the development of this ideal, in which speech is both spontaneous and stylized, and in which the pursuit of eloquence mitigates political inequalities. He goes on to trace the fierce disputes over Ciceronian speech in the modern world through the work of such figures as Burke, Macaulay, Tocqueville, and Schmitt, explaining how rhetorical risk-sharing has broken down. Words on Fire offers a powerful critique of today's political language – and shows how the struggle over the meaning of eloquence has shaped our world.
Rob Goodman is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University and a former US House and Senate speechwriter.
Introduction: 'Just Words'; Part 1. Eloquence and the Ancients: 1. 'I Tremble with My Whole Heart': Cicero on the Anxieties of Eloquence; 2. The Parthenon and the Outhouse: Cicero's Demosthenes and the Uses of Style; Part 2. Eloquence and the Moderns: 3. Edmund Burke and the Deliberative Sublime; 4. Debatable Land: Macaulay, Tocqueville, and the Art of Judgment; 5. Speaking 'As If': Carl Schmitt and Rhetoric as Ritual; Conclusion: On Not Listening.
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.12.2021 |
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Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 363 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-009-04577-6 / 1009045776 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-04577-3 / 9781009045773 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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