Rhetoric and Politics: Baltasar Gracian and the New World Order Volume 14 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816629114)

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, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Anthony J. Cascardi, U of California, Berkeley; David Castillo, U of Minnesota; Jorge Checa, U of California, Santa Barbara; William Egginton, Stanford U; Alban K. Forcione, Princeton U; Edward H. Friedman, Indiana U; Carlos Hernández-Sacristán, U of Valencia, Spain; Isabel C. Livosky, Knox College; Michael Nerlich, Technische Universität, Berlin; Oscar Pereira, U of Nebraska; Malcolm K. Read, SUNY, Stony Brook; Francisco J. Sánchez, U of Iowa.

Author: Nicholas Spadaccini
ISBN-10: 0816629110
ISBN-13: 9780816629114
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 07/15/1997
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.45w x 0.91d