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Tradition and the rhetoric of right : popular political argument in the Aurobindo movement
- Title
- Tradition and the rhetoric of right : popular political argument in the Aurobindo movement / David J. Lorenzo.
- Author
- Lorenzo, David J., 1961-
- Publication
- Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BL1273.84 b.L67 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 339 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-316) and index.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments (starting p. 9) -- 1 Tradition, Rhetoric, and the Aurobindo Movement (starting p. 13) -- 2 The Rhetoric of Right as Interpretation, Tradition, and Symbolic Capital (starting p. 24) -- 3 Texts in Context (starting p. 44) -- 4 Cosmology: Mysticism, the Evolution of Consciousness, and Freedom (starting p. 103) -- 5 The Description and Authority of Founders and Heroes: Aurobindo and the Mother as Mosaic Mediators (starting p. 150) -- 6 History: The Path to the Promised Land (starting p. 195) -- 7 Conflict in the Promised Land: "The Great Auroville Revolution" in the Rhetoric of Right (starting p. 236) -- 8 Summary and Applications (starting p. 289) -- Bibliography (starting p. 309) -- Notes (starting p. 317) -- Index (starting p. 338)
- ISBN
- 0838638155
- 9780838638156
- LCCN
- 98044575
- OCLC
- ocm39930745
- 39930745
- SCSB-864432
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library