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Realizing that a world remade by techno-science and global capital stands in great need of practical wisdom as an antidote to various forms of modern hubris, scholars across the human sciences have taken a renewed interest in exploring how the classical virtue of prudence can be reformulated as a guide for postmodern practice. This volume brings together scholars in classics, political philosophy, and rhetoric to analyze prudence as a distinct...

AcknowledgmentsCh. 1: IntroductionCh. 2: No Superficial Attractions and Ornaments: The Invention of Modernity in Machiavelli's Realist StyleCh. 3: No One Is in Charge Here: Ryszard Kapuscinski's Anatomy of the Courtly StyleCh. 4: In Oratory as in Life: Civic Performance in Cicero's Republican StyleCh. 5: A Boarder in One's Own Home: Franz Kafka's Parables of the Bureaucratic StyleCh. 6: ConclusionNotesIndex

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Even as the media environment has changed dramatically in recent years, one thing at least remains true: photographs are everywhere. From professional news photos to smartphone selfies, images have become part of the fabric of modern life. And that may be the problem. Even as photography bears witness, it provokes anxieties about fraudulent representation, even as it evokes compassion, it prompts anxieties about excessive exposure. Parents and...

Contemporary scholarship illustrates the law's increasingly powerful role in American life, legal education, in turn, has focused on the problems and techniques of communication. This book addresses these interests through critical study of eight popular trials: the 17th-century trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, and the 20th-century trials of Scopes, the Rosenbergs, the Chicago Seven, the Catonsville Nine, John Hinckley, Claus von Bulow, and San...

Beer and Hariman provide a coherent set of essays that trace and challenge the tradition of realism which has dominated the thinking of academics and practitioners alike. These timely essays set out a systematic investigation of the major realist writers of the Post-War era, the foundational concepts of international politics, and representative case studies of political discourse.