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Words on Fire - Eloquence and Its Conditions (Paperback)
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Words on Fire - Eloquence and Its Conditions (Paperback)
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Why is political rhetoric broken - and how can it be fixed? Words
on Fire returns to the origins of rhetoric to recover the central
place of eloquence in political thought. Eloquence, for the orators
of classical antiquity, emerged from rhetorical relationships that
exposed both speaker and audience to risk. Through close readings
of Cicero - and his predecessors, rivals, and successors -
political theorist and former speechwriter Rob Goodman tracks the
development of this ideal, in which speech is both spontaneous and
stylized, and in which the pursuit of eloquence mitigates political
inequalities. He goes on to trace the fierce disputes over
Ciceronian speech in the modern world through the work of such
figures as Burke, Macaulay, Tocqueville, and Schmitt, explaining
how rhetorical risk-sharing has broken down. Words on Fire offers a
powerful critique of today's political language - and shows how the
struggle over the meaning of eloquence has shaped our world.
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