Letters to power
Subtitle: public advocacy without public intellectuals
By: Samuel McCormick
Series: Rhetoric and democratic deliberation
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780271050737
Subjects: Intellectuals; Rhetoric; Political aspects; Political activity
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Minor political rhetoric , major western thinkers; title: Remaining concealed: learned protest between stoicism and the state; title: Mirrors for the queen : exemplary figures on the eve of civil war; title: Performative publicity : the critique of private reason; title: Hidden behind the dash : techniques of unrecognizability; title: Oppositional politics in the age of academia.