Letters to Power Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals / [Recurso electrónico] :
Samuel McCormick.
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.
- 1 online resource (197 p. )
- Rhetoric and democratic deliberation .
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Minor political rhetoric , major western thinkers -- Remaining concealed: learned protest between stoicism and the state -- Mirrors for the queen : exemplary figures on the eve of civil war -- Performative publicity : the critique of private reason -- Hidden behind the dash : techniques of unrecognizability -- Oppositional politics in the age of academia.
Libro Electrónico
"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"--