Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-11-2019

Publication Title

Rhetoric Society Quarterly

Volume

49

Issue Number

3

First Page

225

Last Page

232

ISSN

0277-3945

Abstract

Despite varying understandings of who or what a demagogue is or what a demagogue does, it is little surprise that demagoguery has long occupied rhetoricians, who are of course also interested in persuasion, argument, politics, public speech, affect, emotion, ethics, deliberative discourse, and essentially all the other realms of rhetorical action touched by the demagogue. Still, after more than two and a half millennia of deliberation on the matter, rhetoricians are still grappling with demagoguery—how to define it, how to identify who engages in it, how to explain its rhetorical character and effects, how to resist it, and how to reverse it, or if it’s even possible to do so. The essays in this issue advance that effort in a time when demagoguery is once again on the rise.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, on June 11, 2019, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02773945.2019.1610636

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