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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America.

This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. At a time when social movements led by religious leaders, from Louis Farrakhan to Pat Buchanan, are...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Darsey, James
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Social problems > United States.
Prophecy > Social aspects > United States.
Radicalism > United States.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > United States.
English language > United States > Rhetoric.
Political oratory > Social aspects > United States.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-
Political Science.
Literature.
RELIGION > History.
English language > Rhetoric.
Political oratory > Social aspects.
Prophecy > Social aspects.
Radicalism.
Rhetoric > Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Social problems.
United States.
Since 1980
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1 Radical Rhetoric and American Community: Threnody for Sophrosyne; Part I; 2 Old Testament Prophecyas Radical Ursprach; 3 Prophecy as Sacred Truth:Self-Evidence and Righteousness inthe American Revolution; 4 Prophecy as Krisis:Wendell Phillips and the Sin of Slavery; 5 The Prophet's Call andHis Burden:The Passion of Eugene V. Debs; Part II; 6 The Word in Darkness; 7 A Vision of the Apocalypse:Joe McCarthy's Rhetoric of the Fantastic; 8 Prophecy as Poetry: The Romantic Vision of Robert Welch.
  • 9 Secular Argument andthe Language of Commodity:Gay Liberation and Merely Civil Rights10 The Seraph and the Snake; Notes; Index.