Rhetoric and politics: baltasar gracian and the new world order
Auteur :
Spadaccini, Nicholas
Éditeur :
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN :
9780816629114
Date de publication :
15 juil. 1997
Dimensions :
22,9 x 14,9 x 2,3 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Baltasar Gracian, a 17th-century Spanish Jesuit writer, explored the political uses of rhetoric. The essays in this volume focus on the relevance of Gracian in the late-20th century, arguing that the so-called "new world order" is an old idea, stretching back to the sophists of ancient Greece.