Tradition and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in the Aurobindo Movement
- ISBN-10
- 0838638155
- ISBN-13
- 9780838638156
- Category
- Spiritual life
- Pages
- 339
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
- Author
- David J. Lorenzo
Description
"This book examines and establishes the importance of one aspect of popular political arguments - rhetorical features that draw upon tradition as taken-for-granted values, judgments, and calculations. It illustrates how popular political arguments draw upon this "rhetoric of right," unique to each political community, to establish the "correctness" or "rightness" of a policy proposal. It then uses that illustration to argue first that tradition in political arguments is not only present, but important; second, that tradition operates through time in a contextual rather than evolutionary manner, and third, that political theorists must take seriously the presence of tradition in political arguments in both its substance and its formal aspects." "The book is based upon a study of political arguments in the Indian religious/political movement that grew up around the Indian mystic Aurobindo Ghose and his collaborator Mirra Richard."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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