Letters to Power - Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals

About the author

Samuel McCormick is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel McCormick, McCormick Samuel
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2013
• EAN: 9780271050744
• ISBN: 978-0-271-05074-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Political structure & processes, Communication Studies, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Political structure and processes, Pressure groups & lobbying, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc