Rob Goodman

Words on Fire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ranging from Cicero's Rome to contemporary politics, Words on Fire is a provocative rethinking of political eloquence for our time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 539g
• ISBN-13: 9781316517659
• ISBN-10: 1316517659
• Artikelnr.: 62188230

Autorenporträt

Rob Goodman is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University and a former US House and Senate speechwriter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'Just Words'
Part 1. Eloquence and the Ancients: 1. 'I Tremble with My Whole Heart': Cicero on the Anxieties of Eloquence
2. The Parthenon and the Outhouse: Cicero's Demosthenes and the Uses of Style
Part 2. Eloquence and the Moderns: 3. Edmund Burke and the Deliberative Sublime
4. Debatable Land: Macaulay, Tocqueville, and the Art of Judgment
5. Speaking 'As If': Carl Schmitt and Rhetoric as Ritual
Conclusion: On Not Listening.