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Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2007

Daniel Kapust
Daniel Kapust
Affiliation:
The University of Georgia
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Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment. By Bryan Garsten. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 290p. $45.00.

Bryan Garsten's Saving Persuasion is an engaging and original work of wide appeal. Garsten analyzes the formation of an antirhetorical tradition in modern political thought, investigates its rival classical tradition of rhetoric and judgment, and explores the promise that a politics of persuasion offers contemporary democratic societies.

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BOOK REVIEWS: POLITICAL THEORY
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 147 - 148
Copyright
© 2007 American Political Science Association

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