Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 1 Theory Without Modernity 1
6. I. Conceptual Frameworks
7. 2 Cicero and the Development of Prudential Practice at Rome 35
8. 3 After Virtù 67
9. 4 The “Enlightenment Project” Revisited 99
10. II. Rhetorical Structures
11. 5 Edmund Burke’s Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol and the Texture of Prudence 127
12. 6 Idioms of Prudence in Three Antebellum Controversies 145
13. 7 Fanny Wright and the Enforcing of Prudence 189
14. III. Provisional Networks
15. 8 Prudence as Republican Politics in American Popular Culture 229
16. 9 Lyotard’s Postmodern Prudence 259
17. 10 Prudence in the Twenty-First Century 287
18. Contributors 323
19. Index 325