Authority Figures - Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke''s Political Thought

Informationen zum Autor Torrey Shanks is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Klappentext Authority Figures uncovers the essential but largely unrecognized place of rhetoric in John Locke's political and philosophical thought. This book traces the close ties between rhetoric and experience as they form the basis for a theory and practice of judgment at the center of his work. His well known hostility to rhetoric has obscured an important debt to figural and inventive language. 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. Zusammenfassung Examines the place of rhetoric in John Locke’s political and philosophical thought. Traces the close ties between rhetoric and experience as they form the basis for a theory and practice of judgment at the center of his work.

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• Authors: Assistant Professor Torrey (Suny Albany) Shanks, Torrey Shanks, Torrey (Assistant Professor Shanks
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.2014
• EAN: 9780271065052
• ISBN: 978-0-271-06505-2
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Communication Studies, Civil rights & citizenship, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics