Tropes of Politics: Science, Theory, Rhetoric, Action
- ISBN-10
- 0299158349
- ISBN-13
- 9780299158347
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 291
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-05-18
- Publisher
- Univ of Wisconsin Press
- Author
- John S. Nelson
Description
Using the neglected arts of argument refined by the rhetoric of inquiry, Nelson traces how everyday words like consent and debate construct politics in much the same way that poets such as Mamet and Shakespeare construct plays, and he shows how we are remaking our politics even as we speak. Tropes of Politics explores how politicians take stands and political scientists probe representation, how experts become informed even as citizens become authorities, how students actually reinvent government while professors merely model politics, how senators wage war yet keep comity among themselves.
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