Letters to power public advocacy without public intellectuals
"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"--
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| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Ã2011.
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| Series: | Rhetoric and democratic deliberation.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
