Description
The resurgence of interest in rhetoric among political theorists is one of the most remarkable developments in the field over the past few decades. Assembling a multidisciplinary group of prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Rhetoric and Political Theory is the most ambitious effort to date to display the range and vitality of work that constitutes the "rhetorical turn" in political theory. Including thirty-six chapters across five sections, the Handbook explores issues that reside at the heart of many of the most pivotal debates and discussions in political theory today: questions about the role of affect and emotion in political life, the work of persuasion in political discourse, the relationship between logic and style in political argument, the character and scope of public deliberation, the performative and constitutive dimensions of language, the play of contingency in political life, and the rhetorical structure of political texts. The volume's authors assess the changing status of rhetoric in political theory and philosophy, exploring disputes that arose in ancient Athens and have continued to the present day, as well as urgent issues that have only recently emerged. Moreover, the Handbook investigates different understandings of rhetoric that have animated recent scholarship and examines key issues and approaches that have fueled the burgeoning interest in rhetoric and political thought.The Oxford Handbook of Rhetoric and Political Theory demonstrates that an adequate understanding of political affairs cannot be attained without taking account the impact of rhetoric on political thought and conduct.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors1. Introduction: The Rhetorical Turn in Political TheoryKeith TopperPART I: SITUATING POLITICS AND RHETORIC2. On the Writtenness of Political TheoryDilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Keith Topper3. Audi Alteram Partem: Rhetoric and Republican Political ThoughtGenevieve Rousseliere4. Denazification: Rhetoric, Politics, and the Affective TurnDaniel M. Gross5. Rhetorics of Affect: Notes on the Political Theory of the PassionsJohn Brenkman6. Visual Rhetoric, Retaliatory Humiliation: ISIS Executions, Performative Violence, and Sovereign PowerRoxanne Euben7. An Ethics of Public Political Deliberation: The Case of RhetoricSimone ChambersPART II: POLITICS AND RHETORIC IN THE ANCIENT WORLD8. On Persuasion in Plato's RepublicJill Frank9. Aristotle's Rhetoric as Political PhilosophyBernard Yack10. Cicero's Orator: Integrity and Instability in the Rhetorical RepublicJoy ConnollyPART III: POLITICS AND RHETORIC IN MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE11. The Power and Peril of Names: Rhetoric, Politics, and Philosophy in Augustine's City of GodMary M. Keys12. Machiavelli and the Rhetoric of Republicanism: The Cambridge School's Guicciardinian Moments RevisitedJohn P. McCormick13. Hobbes Reading Hobbes: Applying Hobbes's Instructions for Reading Scripture to a Reading of Leviathan ItselfJames R. Martel14. Spinoza's Failed Rhetoric of a Supposedly Inconspicuous Transition to SecularityRonald Beiner15. John Locke and RhetoricTorrey Shanks16. Neither/Nor: Vico Beyond Enlightenment and Counter-EnlightenmentDavid L. MarshallPART IV: POLITICS AND RHETORIC IN EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA17. Montesquieu, Rhetoric, and Freedom without EqualityRebecca Kingston18. Rhetoric and Political Theory: Rousseau's Modernization of an Ancient PartnershipPeter Alexander Meyers19. Bringing Home the Case of the Poor: The Rhetorical Achievement of Adam Smith's Wealth of NationsSamuel Fleischacker20. Burke and the Rhetoric of Imperial Self-KnowledgeUday S. Mehta21. "Always Watching Ourselves": Rhetoric and Representation in Benjamin ConstantBryan Garsten22. Freedom through Bildung: Rhetoric, "Second Nature," and "Ethical Life" in Hegel's Political TheoryJohn H. Smith23. The Rhetoric of Reason in Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of MenDaniel I. O'Neill24. Tocqueville's RhetoricGeorge Shulman25. Comic Crowds: Kierkegaard and the Incongruity of Democratic PoliticsLars Tonder26. Marx's RhetoricJames Martin27. Whitman and the Poetics of DemocracyBetsy Erkkila28. Writing for All and Writing for None: Nietzsche and RhetoricTracy B. StrongPART V: POLITICS AND RHETORIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND29. Aesthetics, Politics, Rhetoric: Collingwood's New LeviathanNancy Struever30. Political Philosophy as Rhetoric: Hermann Cohen and Leo StraussMiguel Vatter31. Hannah Arendt's Performative PoliticsJohn McGowan32. Fanon's Revolutionary RhetoricAnne Norton33. Rhetoric as Idealization: The Rhetorical Perspective in Habermas's Discourse TheoryWilliam Rehg34. Quasi-Metaphoricity and the Turning Force of AlterityPheng Cheah35. Ernesto Laclau and the Rhetorical Ontology of PoliticsStacey Liou36. The Politics of the SensibleDavide Panagia
