{"product_id":"letters-to-power-samuel-mccormick-9780271050737","title":"Letters to Power: Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough the scarcity of public intellectuals among today's academic professionals is certainly a cause for concern, it also serves as a challenge to explore alternative, more subtle forms of political intelligence. \u003ci\u003eLetters to Power\u003c\/i\u003e accepts this challenge, guiding readers through ancient, medieval, and modern traditions of learned advocacy in search of persuasive techniques, resistant practices, and ethical sensibilities for use in contemporary democratic public culture. At the center of this book are the political epistles of four renowned scholars: the Roman Stoic Seneca the Younger, the late-medieval feminist Christine de Pizan, the key Enlightenment thinker Immanuel Kant, and the Christian anti-philosopher S ren Kierkegaard. Anticipating much of today's online advocacy, their letter-writing helps would-be intellectuals understand the economy of personal and public address at work in contemporary relations of power, suggesting that the art of lettered protest, like letter-writing itself, involves appealing to diverse, and often strictly virtual, audiences. In this sense, \u003ci\u003eLetters to Power\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a nuanced historical study but also a book in search of a usable past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel McCormick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 027105073X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271050737\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/12\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.80d","brand":"Samuel McCormick","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48064810287359,"sku":"9780271050737","price":72.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4468589b-295b-4570-8a0d-e47476727be9.jpg?v=1768671179","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/letters-to-power-samuel-mccormick-9780271050737","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}