Philosophers and historians often treat fundamental concepts like equality as if they existed only as fixed ideas found solely in the canonical texts of civilization. In "Crafting Equality," Celeste Michelle Condit and John Louis Lucaites argue that the meaning of at least one key word-equality-has been forged in the day-to-day pragmatics of public discourse. Drawing upon little studied speeches, newspapers, magazines, and other public discourse, Condit and Lucaites survey the shifting meaning of equality from 1760 to the present as a process of interaction and negotiation among...
Philosophers and historians often treat fundamental concepts like equality as if they existed only as fixed ideas found solely in the canonical texts ...
A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories.
The study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications. As scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light on the cultural processes of memory. Essays contained in this volume address issues such as the scope of public memory, the ways we forget, the relationship between politics and memory, and the material...
A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memories.
The nine essays in this volume offer critical studies of the range of King s public discourse as forms of sermonic rhetoric. They focus on five diverse and relative short examples from King s body of work: Death of Evil on the Seashore, Letter from Birmingham Jail, I Have a Dream, A Time to Break Silence, and I ve Been to the Mountaintop. Taken collectively, these five works span both the duration of King s career as a public advocate but also represent the broad scope of his efforts to craft and project a persuasive vision a beloved community that persists through time. "
The nine essays in this volume offer critical studies of the range of King s public discourse as forms of sermonic rhetoric. They focus on five div...
