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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Democracy and Resentment -- Essay I. Reimagining the People: From Duas Civitates to E Pluribus Unum to E Unibus Duo -- Essay II. The Rise of the Politics of Resentment -- Essay III. The Rhetoric of Violence -- Conclusion: Resentment Ad Hominem and Ad Ratio: A Plea for Rhetorical Criticism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This essay considers the relationship between piracy, terrorism, and post-9/11 U.S. foreign policy as it is outlined in the National Security Strategy of the United States (NSSUS). The NSSUS's discursive formation undertakes two noteworthy rhetorical maneuvers: It confuses piracy with terrorism, thereby shifting focus away from piracy as theft toward the threat of terrorism at sea, or "floating bombs," and it nationalizes terrorism, thereby making terrorists subject to retaliation by the U.S. military. Because post-9/11 distinctions between terrorists, those who pursue violence for political ends, and pirates, those who pursue violence for profiteering ends, have become increasingly difficult to substantiate in the American social imaginary, the collapse of these two categories signifies a final conflation of state power and economic power into one homogenizing, all-consuming force called empire. At the same time, piracy has become a formidable form of global capitalism sharing many characteristics with the doctrines enumerated by the NSSUS.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Gratitude's Keywords -- Chapter 1 Words Matter: On the Rhetoric of Emotion -- Chapter 2 From "Charis" to "Gratia": On the Political Origins of the Debt of Gratitude -- Ciceronian Gratitude -- Seneca's Perpetual Debt -- Chapter 3 "Gratitudo": On Christian Gratitude and Existential Debt -- Chapter 4 "Indebted": On the Contemporary Gratitude Literature -- Chapter 5 "Santosha": On the Yoga of Gratitude -- Yoga Contra Neoliberalism -- "Atha": Yoga as Mindfulness -- Yoga Is More Than Moving Bodies -- Santosha and The Ethics of Yoga -- Gratefulness: Gratitude-As-Thanksgiving -- Conclusion The Politics of a Sunset: From Gratefulness to the Common Good -- Notes -- Index

This essay considers the challenges of responding to the Sandusky child sex-abuse scandal while in the midst of said crisis. It discusses how the authors chose to respond as scholars and teachers of rhetoric concerned with deliberation.