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Rhetoric and Politics Baltasar Gracián and the New World Order Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens, editors |
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Considers current events through an examination of this seventeenth-century philosopher. In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the writings of Baltasar Gracián, a seventeenth-century Spanish Jesuit who explored the political uses of rhetoric. Gracián is best known in the United States for his bestselling collection of aphorisms entitled The Art of Worldly Wisdom, but his pragmatic philosophy has been influential in Europe since the mid-seventeenth century. The essays in this volume focus on the relevance of Gracián's writings in our own day, when the importance of rhetoric as a discipline necessary to manage public life is indisputable. Ranging in focus and theoretical perspective from Lacanian psychoanalysis to the sociology of everyday life, from considerations of aesthetics and philosophy to examinations of the culture of the baroque, these essays demonstrate that Gracián's work offers insights into the deployment of rhetoric under the "New World Order." Contributors: Luis F. Avilés, Anthony J. Cascardi, David Castillo, Jorge Checa, William Egginton, Alban K. Forcione, Edward H. Friedman, Carlos Hernández-Sacristán, Isabel C. Livosky, Michael Nerlich, Oscar Pereira, Malcolm K. Read, and Francisco J. Sánchez. Nicholas Spadaccini is professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. Jenaro Talens is professor of literary theory and film at the University of Valencia, Spain. Together they co-authored Through the Shattering Glass and co-edited The Politics of Editing. 360 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | 1997 |
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