Letters to power [electronic resource] : public advocacy without public intellectuals / Samuel McCormick.
Material type: TextSeries: Rhetoric and democratic deliberation | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (197 p. )ISBN:- 9780271052328
- 808 23
- PN239.P64 M33 2011
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Minor political rhetoric , major western thinkers -- Remaining concealed: learned protest between stoicism and the state -- Mirrors for the queen : exemplary figures on the eve of civil war -- Performative publicity : the critique of private reason -- Hidden behind the dash : techniques of unrecognizability -- Oppositional politics in the age of academia.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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