{"product_id":"tropes-of-politics-science-theory-rhetoric-action-paperback","title":"Tropes of Politics: Science, Theory, Rhetoric, Action - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn S. Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Talk is of central importance to politics of almost every kind--it's no accident that when the ancient Greeks first attempted to examine politics systematically, they developed the study of rhetoric. In \u003ci\u003eTropes of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, John Nelson applies rhetorical analysis first to political theory, and then to politics in practice. He offers a full and deep critical examination of political science and political theory as fields of study, and then undertakes a series of creative examinations of political rhetoric, including a deconstruction of deliberation and debate by the U.S. Senate prior to the Gulf War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Using the neglected arts of argument refined by the rhetoric of inquiry, Nelson traces how everyday words like consent and debate construct politics in much the same way that poets such as Mamet and Shakespeare construct plays, and he shows how we are remaking our politics even as we speak. \u003ci\u003eTropes of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e explores how politicians take stands and political scientists probe representation, how experts become informed even as citizens become authorities, how students actually reinvent government while professors merely model politics, how senators wage war yet keep comity among themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The action, Nelson shows, is in the tropes: these figures of speech and images of deed can persuade us to turn from ideologies like liberalism toward spectacles about democracy or movements into environmentalism and feminism. His argument is that inventive attention to tropes can mean better participation in politics. And the argument is in the tropes--evidence itself as sights or citations, governments as machines or men, politics as hardball or softball, deliberations as freedoms or constraints, borders as fringes or friends. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e John S. Nelson is professor of political science at the University of Iowa. He is the editor of the book The \u003ci\u003eRhetoric of the Human Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e and also coeditor of the book series\u003ci\u003e Rhetoric of the Human Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by the University of Wisconsin Press. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eVideo Rhetorics: Televised Advertising in American Politics\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.99 x 6.13 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47540488732893,"sku":"9780299158347","price":28.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/Cj_mb_ZJVg9780299158347.webp?v=1772583631","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/tropes-of-politics-science-theory-rhetoric-action-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}