The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

All these premises having, as I think, been clearly made out, it is impossible that the rulers now on earth should make any benefit, or derive any the least shadow of authority from that, which is held to be the fountain of all power, Adam's private dominion and paternal jurisdiction; so that he that will not give just occasion to think that all government in the world is the product only of force and violence, and that men live together by no other rules but that of beasts, where the strongest carries it, and so lay a foundation for perpetual disorder and mischief, tumult, sedition and rebellion, (things that the followers of that hypothesis so loudly cry out against) must of necessity find out another rise of government, another original of political power, and another way of designing and knowing the persons that have it, than what Sir Robert Filmer hath taught us.

Two Treatises of Government.

Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Edited by I. Lakatos and A. Musgrave. Pp. viii, 282. £3·50, paperback £1. 1970. (Cambridge University Press.)

This paper describes the role of rhetoric in legitimating profound institutional change. In 1997, a Big Five accounting firm purchased a law firm, triggering a jurisdictional struggle within accoun...

Rhetorical Strategies of Legitimacy

In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeur's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.

Time and Narrative

Opening with an overview of the renewal of interest in rhetoric for inquiries of all kinds, this volume addresses rhetoric in individual disciplines - mathematics, anthropology, psychology, economics, sociology, political science and history. Drawing from recent literary theory, it suggests the contribution of the humanities to the rhetoric of inquiry and explores communications beyond the academy, particulary in women's issues, religion and law. The final essays speak from the field of communication studies, where the study of rhetoric usually makes its home.

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Rhetoric Of The Human Sciences: Language And Argument In Scholarship And Public Affairs

Narrative Reason in Public Argument

As a practice and a profession, late-modern accounting conceives accountability as representation and control. Post-modern modes of accountability project another practice of accounting that would resist reduction to representation and control. After the fashion of Friedrich Nietzsche, this alternative suggests that accounting “return” to a practical and professional horizon created by such internal goods as narration and acknowledgement. By complementing the economics and politics of representationalism, projects of narration and acknowledgement can gain greater autonomy and integrity for accounting. Especially as accountants address domains outside the modern corporation, these post-modern dimensions of practical accountability become harder to avoid, easier to understand, and better to cultivate.

Account and acknowledge, or represent and control? On post-modern politics and economics of collective responsibility

This essay reports the historical and philosophical reasoning behind the rhetoric of inquiry, an interdisciplinary enterprise designed to enhance the relations among the arts and sciences and clarify the actual practice of scholarship.

Rhetoric of inquiry: Projects and prospects

The aim of this book is to teach us how to better understand political ads (telespots) by attuning ourselves to their video rhetoric--their themes and stories, atmosphere and characterization, feelings and images, and their use of popular genres--from film to fiction, from MTV to game shows. Video Rhetorics is both a call for, and an example of, a new kind of political analysis. Supplemented with Hot Spots: Multimedia Analyses of Political Ads, a sixty-minute video of multimedia advertising studies, the book presents lucid analyses of particular campaign ads to illustrate how music, text, metaphor, genre, image, color, delivery, tempo, and location all combine to "orchestrate" political meaning. The authors also show readers how to comprehend dynamics of contemporary political life that remain mysterious within traditional accounts of how citizens learn about politics. In the authors' view, electronic politics is here to stay, like it or not, and we cannot afford simply to dismiss or condemn political ads.

John S. Nelson

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Rhetoric Of The Human Sciences: Language And Argument In Scholarship And Public Affairs

Narrative Reason in Public Argument

Account and acknowledge, or represent and control? On post-modern politics and economics of collective responsibility

Rhetoric of inquiry: Projects and prospects

Video Rhetorics: Televised Advertising in American Politics