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The Politics of Rhetoric - Richard M. Weaver and the Conservative Tradition (Hardcover, New)
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The Politics of Rhetoric - Richard M. Weaver and the Conservative Tradition (Hardcover, New)
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Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963) was one of the leading rhetoricians
of the 1950s, whose philosophical and pedagogical writings helped
revitalize interest in rhetoric. His rhetorical contributions are
difficult to separate from his conservative stances on social and
political issues; and, indeed, he espoused the cultural role of
rhetoric, conceiving of his intellectual task as one of reinventing
a philosophical conservatism and employing rhetorical theory to
oppose liberalism and modernism. Today, his politics would be
viewed as extreme by liberals, feminists, and civil libertarians;
on the other hand, his theories laid the philosophical groundwork
for contemporary American political conservatism, and his
argumentation on a number of social issues remains pertinent. This
first full-length study of Weaver examines the relationship between
his rhetorical theory and his cultural views, focusing on the
rhetorical insights---for instance, his conception of language as
sermonic, its function being to influence others to think and act
according to the speaker's moral precepts and, ideally, to convey
the abiding truth of a culture. Authors Duffy and Jacobi advance
the idea that Weaver was at his best as an epideictic rhetor,
engaged in the celebration of abstract values, and at his worst as
a forensic rhetor, pleading conservative causes with no more than
the pretense of impartiality. Based largely on primary materials
but with adroit application of previous criticism, this work will
be valuable for a wide range of research specialties in rhetoric
and public address.
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