Introduction / Michael J. Shapiro -- Situated actions and vocabularies of motive / C. Wright Mills -- Verbalizing a political act : toward a politics of speech / J.G.A. Pocock -- The political language of the helping professions / Murray Edelman -- The rhetoric of Hitler's 'Battle' / Kenneth Burke -- Language and nihilism : Nietzsche's critique of epistemology / Tracy B. Strong -- The order of discourse / Michel Foucault -- The politics of discourse / William E. Connolly -- The linguistic model / Fredric Jameson -- The epistemology of metaphor / Paul De Man -- Literary production as a politicizing practice / Michael J. Shapiro.