Rhetoric and Politics. Gracian and the New World Order
Ed. Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens
The work of the Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracián (whose Art of Wordly Wisdom has enjoyed considerable success in Europe and, recently, in the U.S.) becomes the starting point for a discussion on the political uses of rhetoric, from early modern times to the present.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Practice of Worldly Wisdom: Rereading Gracián and The New World Order
Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro Talens
Part I. The Politics of Modernity
Chapter 1
At the Threshold of Modernity: Gracián’s El Criticón
Alban K. Forcione
Chapter 2
On Power, Image, and Gracián’s Prototype
Isabel C. Livosky
Part II. Subjectivities
Chapter 3
Saving Appearances: Language and Commodification in Baltasar Gracián
Malcolm K. Read
Chapter 4
Surviving in the Field of Vision: The Building of a Subject in Gracián’s El Criticón
Luis F. Avilés
Chapter 5
Gracián and the Emergence of the Modern Subject
William Egginton
Chapter 6
Gracián and the Ciphers of the World
Jorge Checa
Part III. Representations
Chapter 7
Gracián and the Art of Public Representation
David Castillo
Chapter 8
Symbolic Wealth and Theatricality in Gracián
Francisco J. Sánchez
Chapter 9
Gracián and the Scopic Regimes of Modernity
Oscar Pereira
Chapter 10
Gracián and the Authority of Taste
Anthony J. Cascardi
Part IV. The Politics of Everyday Life
Chapter 11
The Art of Worldly Wisdom as an Ethics of Conversation
Carlos Hernández-Sacristán
Chapter 12
Gracián in the Death Cell
Michael Nerlich
Afterword
Constructing Gracián
Edward H. Friedman