From post-truth politics to "no-platforming" on university
campuses, the English language has been both a potent weapon and a
crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important and
wide-ranging intervention, Thomas Docherty explores the politics of
the English language, its implication in the dynamics of political
power and the spaces it offers for dissent and resistance. From the
authorised English of the King James Bible to the colonial project
of University English Studies, this book develops a powerful
history for contemporary debates about propaganda, free speech and
truth-telling in our politics. Taking examples from the US, UK and
beyond - from debates about the Second Amendment and free-speech on
campus, to the Iraq War and the Grenfell Tower fire - this book is
a powerful and polemical return to Orwell's observation that a
degraded political language is intimately connected to an equally
degraded political culture.
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