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The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America /

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Main Author: Darsey, James Francis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social problems > United States.
Prophecy > Social aspects > United States.
Radicalism > United States.
Rhetoric > Social aspects > United States.
English language > United States > Rhetoric.
Political oratory > Social aspects > United States.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Radical rhetoric and American community : threnody for Sophrosyne
  • Old Testament prophecy as radical ursprach
  • Prophecy as sacred truth : self-evidence and righteousness in the American Revolution
  • Prophecy as krisis : Wendell Phillips and the sin of slavery
  • The prophet's call and his burden : the passion of Eugene V. Debs
  • The word in darkness
  • A vision of the apocalypse : Joe McCarthy's rhetoric of the fantastic
  • Prophecy as poetry : the romantic vision of Robert Welch
  • Secular argument and the language of commodity : gay liberation and merely civil rights
  • The seraph and the snake.

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