Cover -- THE KEYS OF POWER -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction: "Eloquence is forever a power"--Transcendentalism and the Search for New Gods -- 1. "Eloquence is the language of love": Sampson Reed and the Calling…
Examines transcendentalism as a distinct rhetorical genre concerned primarily and self-consciously with questions of power.
During the rise of fascism in the early twentieth century, American philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey argued that the greatest threat to democracy was not a political regime or even an aggressive foreign power but rather a set of dispositions or attitudes. Though n…
"Drawing from the writings of John Dewey, identifies the core attitudes of fascism, sets forth an idea of democracy as communicative practice, and defines the values and methods of humanistic logic, aesthetics, and rhetoric"--.
"Drawing from the writings of John Dewey, identifies the core attitudes of fascism, sets forth an idea of democracy as communicative practice, and defines the values and methods of humanistic logic, aesthetics, and rhetoric"--
