The Oxford Handbook of Rhetoric and Political Theory

Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar is Professor of Rhetoric, Media, and Publics and Director of the Center for Global Culture and Communication at Northwestern University.Keith Topper is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the PhD Program in Culture and Theory at the University of California, Irvine.

• List of Contributors 1. Introduction: The Rhetorical Turn in Political TheoryKeith Topper PART I: SITUATING POLITICS AND RHETORIC 2. On the Writtenness of Political TheoryDilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Keith Topper 3. Audi Alteram Partem: Rhetoric and Republican Political ThoughtGenevieve Rousseliere 4. Denazification: Rhetoric, Politics, and the Affective TurnDaniel M. Gross 5. Rhetorics of Affect: Notes on the Political Theory of the PassionsJohn Brenkman 6. Visual Rhetoric, Retaliatory Humiliation: ISIS Executions, Performative Violence, and Sovereign PowerRoxanne Euben 7. An Ethics of Public Political Deliberation: The Case of RhetoricSimone Chambers PART II: POLITICS AND RHETORIC IN THE ANCIENT WORLD 8. On Persuasion in Plato's RepublicJill Frank 9. Aristotle's Rhetoric as Political PhilosophyBernard Yack 10. Cicero's Orator: Integrity and Instability in the Rhetorical RepublicJoy Connolly PART III: POLITICS AND RHETORIC IN MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE 11. The Power and Peril of Names: Rhetoric, Politics, and Philosophy in Augustine's City of GodMary M. Keys 12. Machiavelli and the Rhetoric of Republicanism: The Cambridge School's Guicciardinian Moments RevisitedJohn P. McCormick 13. Hobbes Reading Hobbes: Applying Hobbes's Instructions for Reading Scripture to a Reading of Leviathan ItselfJames R. Martel 14. Spinoza's Failed Rhetoric of a Supposedly Inconspicuous Transition to SecularityRonald Beiner 15. John Locke and RhetoricTorrey Shanks 16. Neither/Nor: Vico Beyond Enlightenment and Counter-EnlightenmentDavid L. Marshall PART IV: POLITICS AND RHETORIC IN EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA 17. Montesquieu, Rhetoric, and Freedom without EqualityRebecca Kingston 18. Rhetoric and Political Theory: Rousseau's Modernization of an Ancient PartnershipPeter Alexander Meyers 19. Bringing Home the Case of the Poor: The Rhetorical Achievement of Adam Smith's Wealth of NationsSamuel Fleischacker 20. Burke and the Rhetoric of Imperial Self-KnowledgeUday S. Mehta 21. "Always Watching Ourselves": Rhetoric and Representation in Benjamin ConstantBryan Garsten 22. Freedom through Bildung: Rhetoric, "Second Nature," and "Ethical Life" in Hegel's Political TheoryJohn H. Smith 23. The Rhetoric of Reason in Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of MenDaniel I. O'Neill 24. Tocqueville's RhetoricGeorge Shulman 25. Comic Crowds: Kierkegaard and the Incongruity of Democratic PoliticsLars Tonder 26. Marx's RhetoricJames Martin 27. Whitman and the Poetics of DemocracyBetsy Erkkila 28. Writing for All and Writing for None: Nietzsche and RhetoricTracy B. Strong PART V: POLITICS AND RHETORIC IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND BEYOND 29. Aesthetics, Politics, Rhetoric: Collingwood's New LeviathanNancy Struever 30. Political Philosophy as Rhetoric: Hermann Cohen and Leo StraussMiguel Vatter 31. Hannah Arendt's Performative PoliticsJohn McGowan 32. Fanon's Revolutionary RhetoricAnne Norton 33. Rhetoric as Idealization: The Rhetorical Perspective in Habermas's Discourse TheoryWilliam Rehg 34. Quasi-Metaphoricity and the Turning Force of AlterityPheng Cheah 35. Ernesto Laclau and the Rhetorical Ontology of PoliticsStacey Liou 36. The Politics of the SensibleDavide Panagia