Philosophy’s Gaudy Dress’
Rhetoric and Fantasy in the Lockean Social Contract
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12717600 |
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| Authors | Linda M G Zerilli (0000-0002-3678-4746, Northwestern University, Illinois,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 146-163 |
| Publication date | 2005-02-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1474-8851 • E-ISSN: 1741-2730 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1474885105050447 |
| OpenAlex | W2103285554 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
John Locke famously sets the arts of rhetoric at odds with the pursuit of knowledge. Drawing on the work of Ernesto Grassi, this article shows that Locke’s epistemological and political arguments are parasitic on the very tropes and figures he would exclude in any serious discourse. Accordingly, Locke’s attack on the divine right of kings and his famous argument for the social contract is read as exhibiting a rhetorical structure. This structure is crucial to Locke’s critique of heteronomy and his attempt to facilitate the identification of oneself as a free subject
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Autonomy · Epistemology · Heteronomy · Linguistics · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Social contract · Sociology · Subject (documents · The arts · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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