Wide-ranging in focus, these essays demonstrate that the work of seventeenth-century Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracián offers insights into the deployment of rhetoric under the “New World Order.” “Rhetoric and Politics will do much to stimulate a renewed interest in Gracián and in the originality of Spanish culture.” David William Foster, Arizona State University.

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.