Letters to Power
Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals
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2013
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-05074-4 (ISBN)
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Discusses the role of the intellectual in public life. Argues that the scarcity of public intellectuals among today's academics is a challenge to us to explore alternative, more subtle forms of political intelligence. Looks to ancient, medieval, and modern traditions of learned advocacy.
Although the scarcity of public intellectuals among today’s academic professionals is certainly a cause for concern, it also serves as a challenge to explore alternative, more subtle forms of political intelligence. Letters to Power accepts this challenge, guiding readers through ancient, medieval, and modern traditions of learned advocacy in search of persuasive techniques, resistant practices, and ethical sensibilities for use in contemporary democratic public culture. At the center of this book are the political epistles of four renowned scholars: the Roman Stoic Seneca the Younger, the late-medieval feminist Christine de Pizan, the key Enlightenment thinker Immanuel Kant, and the Christian anti-philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. Anticipating much of today’s online advocacy, their letter-writing helps would-be intellectuals understand the economy of personal and public address at work in contemporary relations of power, suggesting that the art of lettered protest, like letter-writing itself, involves appealing to diverse, and often strictly virtual, audiences. In this sense, Letters to Power is not only a nuanced historical study but also a book in search of a usable past.
Although the scarcity of public intellectuals among today’s academic professionals is certainly a cause for concern, it also serves as a challenge to explore alternative, more subtle forms of political intelligence. Letters to Power accepts this challenge, guiding readers through ancient, medieval, and modern traditions of learned advocacy in search of persuasive techniques, resistant practices, and ethical sensibilities for use in contemporary democratic public culture. At the center of this book are the political epistles of four renowned scholars: the Roman Stoic Seneca the Younger, the late-medieval feminist Christine de Pizan, the key Enlightenment thinker Immanuel Kant, and the Christian anti-philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. Anticipating much of today’s online advocacy, their letter-writing helps would-be intellectuals understand the economy of personal and public address at work in contemporary relations of power, suggesting that the art of lettered protest, like letter-writing itself, involves appealing to diverse, and often strictly virtual, audiences. In this sense, Letters to Power is not only a nuanced historical study but also a book in search of a usable past.
Samuel McCormick is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University
Contents
Acknowledgments
1Minor Political Rhetorics, Major Western Thinkers
2Remaining Concealed: Lettered Protest Between Stoicism and the State
3Mirrors for the Queen: Exemplary Figures on the Eve of Civil War
4Performative Publicity: The Critique of Private Reason
5Distinction Turned Around: The Rhetoric of Unrecognizability
6Oppositional Politics in the Age of Academia
Notes
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.5.2013 |
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Reihe/Serie | Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation |
Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations, unspecified |
Verlagsort | Pennsylvania |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 318 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 0-271-05074-8 / 0271050748 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-05074-4 / 9780271050744 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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