… the rhetoric of politics, we deal with those terms in reverse— the politics of rhetoric—because
the term rhetoric … —only very, very different from the premodern and modern operations. …

… Rhetoric is the art of speech and persuasion, the study of … rhetoricians, politics is a skill to
be performed and not merely observed. Yet in modern democracies we often suspect political …

… or to understand modern American politics but not traditional … rhetoric, and morality are
distinct and therefore imply distinct conceptions of politics, I will offer a model of politics as rhetoric …

… This demarcation presupposes already a modern action concept of politics, related to
Koselleck’s Sattelzeit around 1750-1850, during which all ‘socio-political concepts’ underwent a …

… of modern rhetoric would have to include them, would have to spell them out, and indicate
their relevance to communication. If the modern theory took Aristotle's Rhetoric … of the political …

… Mill overturned a long and authoritative tradition that cut across ideological boundaries
and enjoyed a solid reputation within modern political thought. Disdain for rhetoric and the …

… In the modern world, political speech can take many forms. There are party platforms, manifestos,
campaign speeches at political rallies and conventions, addresses to political … political …

… The implication, according to Strauss, was that Hobbes—and the entire modern program
of political science that he had launched—could not be fully understood without noticing the …

… plays, much modern … rhetoric we teach on Monday and the modern literature we teach on
Tuesday, we look for ways of teaching writing that are more nearly in harmony with the modern …

… Others show the bearing of classical rhetoric on contemporary problems in composition, …
one central theme: the 20th-century revival of rhetoric entails a recovery of the classical tradition, …