The Politics of Rhetorical Studies: A Piacular Rite

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Acknowledgments

He wishes to thank Rosa Eberly, Miriam Ruth Aune, Jennifer Mercieca, and Nan Johnson for comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript.

Notes

1. On “creative destruction,” see Joseph Schumpeter's classic discussion in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (New York: Perennial, 1985) and Richard Posner's provocative rehabilitation of a Schumpeterian view of democracy in Law, Pragmatism and Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).

2. Charles Taylor, Hegel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975), 3–50.

3. Taylor, Hegel, 20

4. Martin Bernal, Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization / The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785–1985 (Rutgers University Press, 1989). See also James Arnt Aune, “Black Athena and the Fabrication of the Rhetorical Tradition,” Fragments, available at http://www.mcgees.net/fragments/essays/guests/black.htm

5. Taylor, Hegel, 26.

6. Cited and translated in Taylor, Hegel, 26.

7. See my discussion of Schiller and decline of rhetoric in Rhetoric and Marxism (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994), 88–89.

8. See Aune, Rhetoric and Marxism, Chapter 3: “Marcuse's Disappearing Audience.”

9. Michel Foucault, Fearless Speech, ed. Joseph Pearson (Los Angeles: Semiotexte, 2001).

10. Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, trans. Karen E. Fields (New York: Free Press, 1995), 392–417.

11. Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past 1: Swann's Way, trans. C. K. Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin (London: The Folio Society, 1981), 47–48.

12. Joel Altman, The Tudor Play of Mind (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975).

13. A good profile of Rove is that by Nicholas Lemann, “The Controller: Karl Rove Is Working to Get George Bush Reelected, But He Has Bigger Plans,” New Yorker, May 12, 2003; available online at http://bnfp.org/neighborhood/lemann_rover_nym.htm