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16%OFFTorrey Shanks - Authority Figures: Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke´s Political Thought - 9780271065045 - V9780271065045
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Authority Figures: Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke´s Political Thought

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In Authority Figures, Torrey Shanks uncovers the essential but largely unappreciated place of rhetoric in John Locke’s political and philosophical thought. Locke’s well-known hostility to rhetoric has obscured an important debt to figural and inventive language. Here, Shanks traces the close ties between rhetoric and experience as they form the basis for a theory and practice of judgment at the center of Locke’s work. Rhetoric and experience come together, for Locke, to reorient readers’ relation to the past in order to open up alternative political futures. Recognizing this debt sets the stage for a new understanding of the Two Treatises ... Read more, in which the material and creative force of language is necessary for political critique.

Authority Figures draws together political theory and philosophy, the history of science and of rhetoric, and philosophy of language and literary theory to offer an interpretation of Locke’s political thought that shows the ongoing importance of rhetoric for new modes of critique in the seventeenth century. Locke’s thought offers up insights for rethinking the relationship of rhetoric and experience to political critique, as well as the intersections of language and materialism.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
University Park, United States
ISBN
9780271065045
SKU
V9780271065045
Shipping Time
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About Torrey Shanks
Torrey Shanks is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Reviews for Authority Figures: Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke´s Political Thought
“Many canonical authors in political theory have been read with fresh, even radical, insights in the past decade, but Locke seems to be particularly resistant to such rereadings. In Authority Figures, Torrey Shanks has managed to pull this off. She does so by reading Locke as an ‘Epicurean materialist’—that is, as someone with an appreciation for the unexpected, the unpredictable, ... Read more

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