Authority Figures: Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke's Political Thought

by Torrey Shanks

In Authority Figures, Torrey Shanks uncovers the essential but largely unappreciated place of rhetoric in John Locke's political and philosophical thought. Locke's well-known hostility to rhetoric has obscured an important debt to figural and inventive language. Here, Shanks traces the close ties between rhetoric and experience as they form the basis for a theory and practice of judgment at the center of Locke's work. Rhetoric and experience come...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271065052
• ISBN13: 9780271065052
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"