..., the study did find some evidence that the effect of communist education may have played a role in inculcating pro-gender equality views in line with communist rhetoric. Ceauşescu Nicolae gender equality support jokes Kollontai Alexandra women abortion rhetoric vs reality Soviet Union USSR education...

...This chapter examines how Augustine of Hippo utilized rhetoric to instruct and encourage audiences. It then highlights the pedagogy of Augustine's most rhetorical texts, most of which were sermons. Recognizing the rhetorical and pedagogical purposes of Augustine's homilies of hope complicates...

... with ethical action. Like the Stoics, Emerson deployed paradoxical rhetoric to make a case for the broad justice of Stoic cosmopolitanism in a sentimental age. art of living philosophy Aurelius Marcus Emerson Ralph Waldo Stephen Leslie on Emerson Woolf Virginia The Conduct of Life Emerson Foucault Michel...

...This chapter traces the origins of deductive mathematical proof in classical Greece by drawing on the tradition of Jean-Pierre Vernant and G. E. R. Lloyd. It first considers how certain rhetorical concepts, methods, and patterns were instrumental to mathematical proof before discussing various...

..., such as immigration, the environment, and Euroscepticism, and they employ antiestablishment rhetoric to undermine mainstream party appeal. Unencumbered by government experience, challenger parties adapt more quickly to shifting voter tastes and harness voter disenchantment. Delving into strategies of dominance versus...

... Augustine's extensive use of rhetoric to elicit emotions and form a rational strategy. faith hope knowledge authority reason testimony virtue default and challenge structure of reasoning God church Paul apostle perseverance Wolterstorff Nicholas humans neighbors immanent critique rhetoric...

...This concluding chapter discusses how chronicling the recent history of the U.S. welfare state presents different challenges. Instead of making visible the towering institutions in plain sight, scholars have the challenge of keeping the light on something that much political rhetoric insists has...

.... The book explores the more implicit rhetoric of the prefaces—their structure, quotations, and allusions—for what they reveal about the meaning and the presentation of Cicero’s philosophical project. Cicero Atticus T Pomponius Atticus Caesar C Julius Caesar Papirius Paetus L philosophica philosophy...

... that philosophy for Cicero was not a retreat from politics but a continuation of politics by other means, an alternative way of living a political life and serving the state under newly restricted conditions. The book examines the rhetorical battle that Cicero stages in his philosophical prefaces—a battle between...

...This chapter examines how the emergence of the Tea Party movement corresponds with a spike in antispending rhetoric among congressional Republicans, who criticized particularistic projects that other legislators use to cultivate a personal vote. After Barack Obama's election, Republican activists...

...This chapter studies antiestablishment rhetoric. Antiestablishment rhetoric is not only used by many political entrepreneurs to paint themselves as outsiders, but is also a core feature of populism. Populist parties aim to distinguish themselves from the political mainstream not only by advocating...

...This chapter illustrates the radical strand of eighteenth-century print-cultural rhetoric that rejected the personal room and pictured it as the twisted heart of a stagnant manuscript culture that could only inhibit the modern drive toward sharing feelings and ideas. It considers the original spin...

...This chapter discusses the Old Rhetoric, sketching the long persistence in the West—from Aristotle to the early twentieth century—of a ‘single meaning model’ of language, one that takes ambiguity for granted as an obstacle to persuasive speech and clear philosophical analysis. In Aristotle's works...

... political allies to speak in his place. The chapter first considers the nature of Pericles' rhetoric and his mastery of the art of persuasion in the context of Athenian democracy before discussing the two complementary facets of Pericles' oratorical skill, authority and pedagogy, through a reading...

...This chapter examines Cicero’s use of oratory as a means of establishing a connection between his subject matter, philosophy, and traditional public life. The emphasis is on the connection between philosophy and rhetoric as disciplines and the continuity between Cicero the orator and statesman...

... of dialogue characters. To illustrate Cicero’s overall rhetorical strategy and to reconstruct the step-by-step progression that he creates for the ideal reader approaching his work, the chapter offers a reading of the prefaces to Topica and De Senectute. Genette G mos...

...This chapter assesses the implications of artificial ambiguity for the early modern study of classical poetry. The early modern encounter with ambiguity in poetry took its cue from rhetoric. This is important because it helps to explain why the role of ambiguity in poetry was so heavily...

... of the early modern language arts. In the sixteenth century, as the chapter argues, the English arts of rhetoric and poetics used the tale of Orpheus to transform the force of verbal eloquence into an object of knowledge. The chapter emphasizes that the Orpheus myth provides a way for early modern English...

... been written on the broader trajectory of Western thought about ambiguity before Empson; as a result, the nature of his innovation has been poorly understood. This book remedies this omission. Starting with classical grammar and rhetoric, and moving on to moral theology, law, biblical exegesis, German...