The prophetic tradition and radical rhetoric in America
This expansive volume traces the rhetoric of reform across American history, examining such pivotal periods as the American Revolution, slavery, McCarthyism, and today's gay liberation movement. At a time when social movements led by religious leaders, from Louis Farrakhan to Pat Buchanan, play a central role in American politics, Darsey emphasizes the need for more productive ways of talking about contemporary radicalism than current dichotomies between civility and incivility and reason and unreason afford. In so doing, he sheds new light on the American radical tradition by connecting it with its prophetic roots
xii, 279 pages ; 24 cm
9780814718766, 9780585239804, 0814718760, 0585239800
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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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