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Authority Figures : Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke's Political Thought / Torrey Shanks.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780271065779
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.51/2092 23
LOC classification:
  • JC153.L87 S53 2014eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Rhetoric and Situated Political Critique -- 2 The Claim to Experience -- 3 Material Words and Sensible Judgment -- 4 Feminine Figures and the Rhetoric of Critique -- 5 The Matter of Consent -- Conclusion: Critical Temporalities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In Authority Figures, Torrey Shanks uncovers the essential but largely unappreciated place of rhetoric in John Locke’s political and philosophical thought. Locke’s well-known hostility to rhetoric has obscured an important debt to figural and inventive language. Here, Shanks traces the close ties between rhetoric and experience as they form the basis for a theory and practice of judgment at the center of Locke’s work. Rhetoric and experience come together, for Locke, to reorient readers’ relation to the past in order to open up alternative political futures. Recognizing this debt sets the stage for a new understanding of the Two Treatises of Government, in which the material and creative force of language is necessary for political critique.Authority Figures draws together political theory and philosophy, the history of science and of rhetoric, and philosophy of language and literary theory to offer an interpretation of Locke’s political thought that shows the ongoing importance of rhetoric for new modes of critique in the seventeenth century. Locke’s thought offers up insights for rethinking the relationship of rhetoric and experience to political critique, as well as the intersections of language and materialism.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Rhetoric and Situated Political Critique -- 2 The Claim to Experience -- 3 Material Words and Sensible Judgment -- 4 Feminine Figures and the Rhetoric of Critique -- 5 The Matter of Consent -- Conclusion: Critical Temporalities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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In Authority Figures, Torrey Shanks uncovers the essential but largely unappreciated place of rhetoric in John Locke’s political and philosophical thought. Locke’s well-known hostility to rhetoric has obscured an important debt to figural and inventive language. Here, Shanks traces the close ties between rhetoric and experience as they form the basis for a theory and practice of judgment at the center of Locke’s work. Rhetoric and experience come together, for Locke, to reorient readers’ relation to the past in order to open up alternative political futures. Recognizing this debt sets the stage for a new understanding of the Two Treatises of Government, in which the material and creative force of language is necessary for political critique.Authority Figures draws together political theory and philosophy, the history of science and of rhetoric, and philosophy of language and literary theory to offer an interpretation of Locke’s political thought that shows the ongoing importance of rhetoric for new modes of critique in the seventeenth century. Locke’s thought offers up insights for rethinking the relationship of rhetoric and experience to political critique, as well as the intersections of language and materialism.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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