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A thought-provoking history of communications that challenges ideas
about freedom of speech and democracy. At the heart of democracy
lies a contradiction that cannot be resolved, one that has affected
free societies since their advent: Though freedom of speech and
media has always been a necessary condition of democracy, that very
freedom is also its greatest threat. When new forms of
communication arrive, they often bolster the practices of
democratic politics. But the more accessible the media of a
society, the more susceptible that society is to demagoguery,
distraction, and spectacle. Tracing the history of media disruption
and the various responses to it over time, Zac Gershberg and Sean
Illing reveal how these changes have challenged democracy—often
with unsettling effects. The Paradox of Democracy captures
the deep connection between communication and political culture,
from the ancient art of rhetoric and the revolutionary role of
newspapers to liberal broadcast media and the toxic misinformation
of the digital public sphere. With clear-eyed analysis, Gershberg
and Illing show that our contemporary debates over media, populism,
and cancel culture are not too different from the democratic
cultural experiences of the past. As we grapple with a
fast-changing, hyper-digital world, they prove democracy is always
perched precipitously on a razor’s edge, now as ever before.
A thought-provoking history of communications that challenges ideas
about freedom of speech and democracy. At the heart of democracy
lies a contradiction that cannot be resolved, one that has affected
free societies since their advent: Though freedom of speech and
media has always been a necessary condition of democracy, that very
freedom is also its greatest threat. When new forms of
communications arrive, they often bolster the practices of
democratic politics. But the more accessible the media of a
society, the more susceptible that society is to demagoguery,
distraction, and spectacle. Tracing the history of media disruption
and the various responses to it over time, Zac Gershberg and Sean
Illing reveal how these changes have challenged democracy-often
with unsettling effects. The Paradox of Democracy captures the deep
connection between communication and political culture, from the
ancient art of rhetoric and the revolutionary role of newspapers to
liberal broadcast media and the toxic misinformation of the digital
public sphere. With clear-eyed analysis, Gershberg and Illing show
that our contemporary debates over media, populism, and cancel
culture are not too different from democratic cultural experiences
of the past. As we grapple with a fast-changing, hyper-digital
world, they prove democracy is always perched precipitously on a
razor's edge, now as ever before.
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The Rhetoric of Fascism (Hardcover)
Nathan Crick; Patrick D. Anderson, Rya Butterfield, Nathan Crick, Elizabeth R. Earle, …
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R1,399
Discovery Miles 13 990
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Highlights the persuasive devices most common to fascist appeals
Fascism has resurfaced as one of the most pressing problems of our
time. The rise of extremist parties and candidates in Europe, the
United States, and around the globe has led even mainstream
political commentators to begin using the term “fascism” to
describe dangerous movements that have revived and repackaged many
of the strategies long thought to have been relegated to the
margins of political rhetoric. No longer just confined to the state
regimes of the past, fascism thrives today as a globally
self-augmenting, self-propagating rhetorical phenomenon with a
variety of faces and expressions. The Rhetoric of Fascism defines
and interprets the common persuasive devices that characterize
fascist discourse to understand the nature of its enduring appeal.
By approaching fascism from a rhetorical perspective, this volume
complements established political and sociological understandings
of fascism as a movement or regime. A rhetorical approach studies
fascism less as a party one joins than as a set of persuasive
strategies one adopts. Fascism spreads precisely because it is not
a coherent entity. Instead, it exists as a loosely bound and often
contradictory collection of persuasive trajectories that have
attained enough coherence to mobilize and channel the passions of a
self-constituted mass of individuals. Introductory chapters focus
on general theories of fascism drawn from twentieth-century history
and theory. Contributors investigate specific historical figures
and their relationship to contemporary rhetorics, focusing on a
specific rhetorical device that is characteristic of fascist
rhetoric. A common thread throughout every chapter is that fascist
devices are appealing because they speak to us in the familiar
language of our culture. As we are seduced by one device at a time,
we soon find ourselves part of a movement, a group, or a campaign
that makes us act in ways we might never have imagined. This volume
reveals that fascism may be closer to home than we think.
CONTRIBUTORS Patrick D. Anderson / Rya Butterfield / Nathan Crick /
Elizabeth R. Earle / Zac Gershberg / Stephen J. Hartnett /
Marie-Odile N. Hobeika / Sean Illing / Jacob A. Miller / Fernando
Ismael QuiÑones Valdivia / Patricia Roberts-Miller / Raquel M.
Robvais / Bradley A. Serber / Ryan Skinnell
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