Words on Fire Goodman Rob
Words on Fire Goodman Rob Why is political rhetoric broken - and how can it be fixed? Eloquence, for the orators of classical antiquity, emerged from rhetorical relationships that exposed both…
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Words on Fire Goodman Rob
Why is political rhetoric broken - and how can it be fixed? Eloquence, for the orators of classical antiquity, emerged from rhetorical relationships that exposed both speaker and audience to risk. Words on Fire returns to the origins of rhetoric to recover the central place of eloquence in political thought.
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. 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. Words on Fire offers a powerful critique of today's political language -