# The rhetoric of enmity

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Rodney Barker
- Year: 2007
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics, Philosophy
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/rhetoric-enmity)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

"You may tell a lady by the company she keeps." But you may tell political leaders by the company they shun. Their descriptions of enemies are a way of telling stories about themselves. The use of accounts of enemies from the Reformation to the 'war on terror'.

## Lectures

1. [The rhetoric of enmity](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/rhetoric-enmity/147e7ca16388) (YouTube)