# overview
Dr. Crick's work explores the relationship between and power throughout different periods of political and social change, focusing specifically on those factors which are result of conscious strategies of persuasion by individuals or groups. This goal requires research into a variety of diverse topics, roughly including classical rhetorical theory, social media, the structure of news, religious rhetoric, modern propaganda, the rhetoric of science and technology, the power of aesthetics, the dynamics of social movements, and the history of philosophy. His first book, Democracy and Rhetoric: John Dewey on the Arts of Becoming, uses Dewey's philosophy to construct a view of rhetoric, logic, and aesthetics that is consistent with an ethics of democracy that promotes creative individuality. His second book, Rhetoric and Power: The Drama of Classical Greece, explores through the texts of canonical authors like Aeschylus, Gorgias, Thucydides, and Plato how rhetoric was conceptualized as a means of constituting and transforming power in Greek political culture. His third book, The Keys of Power: The Rhetoric and Politics of Transcendentalism, interprets the writing and thought of figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller as active rhetorical engagements with the political controversies of their time. His fourth book, Dewey for a New Age of Fascism: Teaching Democratic Habits, I use Dewey's late writing to offer a critique of fascist anti-humanism and to contrast it with his ideal of democratic humanism and the arts of rhetoric, logic, and aesthetics that provide their foundation.

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University of Massachusetts Amherst - (Amherst Center, Massachusetts, United States)

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University of Pittsburgh - (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States)

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University of Pittsburgh - (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States)

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Carruth McGehee Award for Excellent Research by a Junior Faculty Member

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THE RHETORIC OF HOPE: INTEGRATING RHETORICAL PRACTICE INTO THE PEDAGOGY OF PAULO FREIRE

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EDUFU - Editora da Universidade Federal de Uberlandia

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Rhetoric, Philosophy, and the Public Intellectual

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Barack Obama and the Rhetoric of Religious Experience

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A Corresponding Renaissance: Letters Written by Italian Women, 1375-1650

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The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics

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Pragmatic Environmentalism: Towards a Rhetoric of Eco-Justice

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Rhetoric, philosophy, and the public intellectual

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Rhetoric, Philosophy, and the Public Intellectual

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The Sophistical Attitude and the Invention of Rhetoric

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"A capital and novel argument": Charles Darwin's notebooks and the productivity of rhetorical consciousness

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Conquering our imagination: Thought experiments and enthymemes in scientific argument

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Conquering Our Imagination: Thought Experiments and Enthymemes in Scientific Argument

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Invectives against ignoramuses: Petrarch and the defense of humanist eloquence

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Nietzsche's Sophist: Rhtr, Musician, Stoic

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When We Cant Wait on Truth: The Nature of Rhetoric in The Rhetoric of Science

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Democracy and Rhetoric John Dewey on the Arts of Becoming

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On fear and longing: Gorgias and the Phobos and Ers of visual rhetoric

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The Rhetoric of Fascism: Or, This Is the Way the World Ends

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Ryan Skinnell, ed. Faking the News: What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump. Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 2018. 193 pages. $29.90 paperback.

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The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914

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The Rhetoric of Violence in Xenophon's Anabasis

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Rocks of ages: Science and religion in the fullness of life

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"I Says to Myself, Says I": Charles Sanders Peirce on the Components of Dialogue

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John Dewey's aesthetics of communication

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Movimento dos secundaristas brasileiros e o momento sofstico: uma nova histria comea a ser contada

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EDUFU - Editora da Universidade Federal de Uberlandia

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Rhetoric and deweys experimental pedagogy

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Medical Narrative and the Rhetoric of Identification: The Many Faces of Anna White Dildane.

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The Conduit Between Lifeworld and System: Habermas and the Rhetoric of Public Scientific Controversies

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"The Effort of Reason, and the Adventure of Beauty": The Aesthetic Rhetoric of Randolph Bourne

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5 The Ourang-Outang in the Rue Morgue: Charles Peirce, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Rhetoric of Diagrams in Detective Fiction

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The mirror of Narcissus: History, metaphysics, and the limits of Richard Rorty's pragmatism

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Communication Ethics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendts Rhetoric of Warning and Hope

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Composition as experience: John Dewey on creative expression and the origins of "Mind"

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A Pedagogy of Freedom: John Dewey and Experimental Rural Education

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The Rhetoric of Fascism: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique

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The keys of power: The rhetoric and politics of transcendentalism

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The Scientific Sublime: Popular Science Unravels the Mysteries of the Universe

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The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought

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The mirror of Narcissus: History, metaphysics, and the limits of Richard Rorty's pragmatism

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Listening, Hearing, Sensing: Three Modes of Being and the Phenomenology of Charles Sanders Peirce

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Go tell alcibiades: Tragedy, comedy, and rhetoric in Plato's Symposium

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From Edicts to Human Flesh Searches: Legal Communication and Practice in China's New Media Environment

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Rhetorical Public Speaking, Civic Engagement in the Digital Age

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Pragmatism, Democracy and the Necessity of Rhetoric

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Prolegomena to Future Inquiry into Rhetoric and Power

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Rhetoric and Power The Drama of Classical Greece

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William James and the Art of Popular Statement

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Neo-Pragmatism, Communication, and the Culture of Creative Democracy.

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Composing the Will to Power: John Dewey on Democratic Rhetorical Education

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The Search for a Purveyor of News: The Dewey/Lippmann Debate in an Internet Age

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There is Beauty Here, Too: Aristotle's Rhetoric for Science

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Publics and Intellectuals, both Real and Unreal

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Publics and intellectuals, both real and unreal

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The Storyteller, Novelist, and Charlatan: Forms of Performance in the Age of Digital Reproduction

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MORALITY THROUGH INQUIRY, MOTIVE THROUGH RHETORIC: THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION IN THE EPOCH OF THE ANTHROPOCENE with Mark Harris, "'The People of This Country Have Had Enough of Experts': In Defense of the 'Elites' of the Science-and-Religion Debate"; Fern Elsdon-Baker, "In Defense of Publics: Projection, Bias, and Cultural Narratives in Science and Religion Debates"; Elaine Howard Ecklund, Sharan Kaur Mehta, and Daniel Bolger, "A Way Forward for Sociological Research on Science and Religion: A Review and a Riff"; Nathan Crick, "Morality through Inquiry, Motive through Rhetoric: The Politics of Science and Religion in the Epoch of the Anthropocene"; and John H. Evans, "The Scope and Implications of Morals Not Knowledge."

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Speaking a word for nature: Science and poetry in the rhetoric of thoreau's transcendental ecology

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Review: A Liberal Education in Late Emerson: Readings in the Rhetoric of Mind , by Sean Ross Meehan

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Texas A&M University; Communication; 4234 TAMU

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Munson, David N (2018-08). Margaret Fuller and the Rhetoric of Transcendental Nationalism. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Ehrl, Marco (2018-08). The Rhetorical Crisis of the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Forgotten Narratives and Political Directions. Doctoral Dissertation.