TY - BOOK AU - McCormick,Samuel TI - Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation. Letters to Power: Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals T2 - Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation SN - 9780271072197 AV - PN239.P64M33 2011 U1 - 808 PY - 2015///] CY - University Park, PA : PB - Penn State University Press, KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric KW - bisacsh KW - 978-0-271-05074-4 KW - Christine de Pizan KW - Immanuel Kant Søren KW - Kierkegaard moral KW - Public Intellectuals Seneca KW - Rhetoric politics KW - Samuel McCormick KW - advocacy KW - and Democratic Deliberation Series KW - philosophy Rhetoric KW - philosophy persuasion KW - philosophy political KW - political science KW - resistance letter-writing KW - the Younger N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Minor political rhetoric, major western thinkers --; 2 Remaining concealed: learned 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 Hidden behind the dash: techniques of Unrecognizability --; 6 Oppositional politics in the age of academia --; Notes --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271072197?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271072197 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271072197/original ER -