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9780271050737 Academic Inspection Copy

Letters to Power

Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals
  • ISBN-13: 9780271050737
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Samuel McCormick
  • Price: AUD $148.00
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  • Local release date: 13/02/2012
  • Format: Hardback 208 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Political activism [JPW]
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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.


Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Minor Political Rhetorics, Major Western Thinkers

2 Remaining Concealed: Lettered Protest Between Stoicism and the State

3 Mirrors for the Queen: Exemplary Figures on the Eve of Civil War

4 Performative Publicity: The Critique of Private Reason

5 Distinction Turned Around: The Rhetoric of Unrecognizability

6 Oppositional Politics in the Age of Academia

Notes

Index


“Complex, though succinct, scholarship often yields succinct, though complex, lessons. Put succinctly, Samuel McCormick’s Letters to Power teaches that to contend with power one must live and endure. . . . As McCormick’s well-footnoted and emphatic arguments suggest, rhetoric’s capacity to disarm power resides with an accepted, intricate methodological framework from which one recognizes varying capacities for deference and dissent.”

—James H. Collier, Rhetoric & Public Affairs

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