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Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Minor Political Rhetorics, Major Western Thinkers
2 Remaining Concealed: Lettered Protest Between Stoicism and the State
3 Mirrors for the Queen: Exemplary Figures on the Eve of Civil War
4 Performative Publicity: The Critique of Private Reason
5 Distinction Turned Around: The Rhetoric of Unrecognizability
6 Oppositional Politics in the Age of Academia
Notes
Index
“Complex, though succinct, scholarship often yields succinct, though complex, lessons. Put succinctly, Samuel McCormick’s Letters to Power teaches that to contend with power one must live and endure. . . . As McCormick’s well-footnoted and emphatic arguments suggest, rhetoric’s capacity to disarm power resides with an accepted, intricate methodological framework from which one recognizes varying capacities for deference and dissent.”
—James H. Collier, Rhetoric & Public Affairs
