Democracy and America's War on Terror (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit)

Ivie, Robert L.

ISBN 10: 0817314431 / ISBN 13: 9780817314439

Editore: University Alabama Press, 2005

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Riassunto:

Robert Ivie, who has written extensively over the last thirty years on American war rhetoric, discusses democracy's centrality to national identity and how prevailing constructions of democracy constitute a republic of fear in which the threat of foreign and domestic "others" is chronically exaggerated through rituals of vilification and victimization.
In reassessing the nation's traditional distrust of democracy (the lively and healthy exchange of differing ideas and ideals) and critiquing the rhetoric of evil, Ivie argues that the problem of international terrorism is best addressed by strengthening, rather than weakening, America's democratic practices - that is, by enriching a democratic culture of robust debate.

Informazioni sugli autori:

Robert L. Ivie is Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University and coauthor of Cold War Rhetoric: Strategy, Metaphor, and Ideology and Congress Declares War: Rhetoric, Leadership, and Partisanship in the Early Republic.

Robert L. Ivie is Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University.

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Titolo: Democracy and America's War on Terror (Albma...
Casa editrice: University Alabama Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2005
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: very_good
Edizione: seconda edizione