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Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric /
"Edmund Burke ranks among the most accomplished orators ever to debate in the British Parliament. But often his eloquence has been seen to compromise his achievements as a political thinker. In the first full-length account of Burke's rhetoric, Bullard argues that Burke's ideas about...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011, ©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Edmund Burke ranks among the most accomplished orators ever to debate in the British Parliament. But often his eloquence has been seen to compromise his achievements as a political thinker. In the first full-length account of Burke's rhetoric, Bullard argues that Burke's ideas about civil society, and particularly about the process of political deliberation, are, for better or worse, shaped by the expressiveness of his language. Above all, Burke's eloquence is designed to express ethos or character. This rhetorical imperative is itself informed by Burke's argument that the competency of every political system can be judged by the ethical knowledge that the governors have of both the people that they govern and of themselves. Bullard finds the intellectual roots of Burke's 'rhetoric of character' in early modern moral and aesthetic philosophy, and traces its development through Burke's parliamentary career to its culmination in his masterpiece, Reflections on the Revolution in France"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139078740 1139078747 9780511902635 0511902638 9781107449107 1107449103 1107221560 9781107221567 1139064002 9781139064002 1283112817 9781283112819 1139076469 9781139076463 9786613112811 661311281X 1139083287 9781139083287 1139081012 9781139081016 1139070746 9781139070744 |