Rhetoric and Politics: Baltasar Gracian and the New World Order Volume 14

by Nicholas Spadaccini

Considers current events through an examination of this seventeenth-century philosopher.

In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the writings of Baltasar Graci n, a seventeenth-century Spanish Jesuit who explored the political uses of rhetoric. Graci n is best known in the United States for his bestselling collection of aphorisms entitled The Art of Worldly Wisdom, but his pragmatic philosophy has been influential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816629110
• ISBN13: 9780816629114
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"