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Saving Persuasion : A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment / Bryan Garsten.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674021686
  • 9780674037519
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.014 22
LOC classification:
  • P301.5.P47 G37 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Persuasion -- Part I. Against Rhetoric -- 1. The Rhetoric against Rhetoric: Hobbes -- 2. Persuading without Convincing: Rousseau -- 3. The Sovereignty of Scholars: Kant -- Part II. For Rhetoric -- 4. Drawing upon Judgment: Aristotle -- 5. Conviction and Controversy: Cicero -- 6. Persuasion and Deliberation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In Saving Persuasion, Bryan Garsten uncovers the early modern origins of today's suspicious attitude toward rhetoric and seeks to loosen its grip on contemporary political theory. He argues that the artful practice of persuasion ought to be viewed as a crucial part of democratic politics. Against theorists who advocate a rationalized ideal of deliberation aimed at consensus, Garsten argues that a controversial politics of partiality and passion can produce a more engaged and more deliberative kind of democratic discourse.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Persuasion -- Part I. Against Rhetoric -- 1. The Rhetoric against Rhetoric: Hobbes -- 2. Persuading without Convincing: Rousseau -- 3. The Sovereignty of Scholars: Kant -- Part II. For Rhetoric -- 4. Drawing upon Judgment: Aristotle -- 5. Conviction and Controversy: Cicero -- 6. Persuasion and Deliberation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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In Saving Persuasion, Bryan Garsten uncovers the early modern origins of today's suspicious attitude toward rhetoric and seeks to loosen its grip on contemporary political theory. He argues that the artful practice of persuasion ought to be viewed as a crucial part of democratic politics. Against theorists who advocate a rationalized ideal of deliberation aimed at consensus, Garsten argues that a controversial politics of partiality and passion can produce a more engaged and more deliberative kind of democratic discourse.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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