书目名称 | Deliberating War | 编辑 | Patricia Roberts-Miller | 视频video | | 概述 | Brings together scholarship from various fields in a way that is engaging and accessible to non-specialists.Broadens the potential audience by avoiding or delaying potentially polarizing examples (but | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .This book argues that treating politics as war derails essential democratic processes, including deliberation and policy argumentation, in complicated ways. “Politics is war” is not always just a figure of speech, but often a sincere expression of how people see disagreement—they mean it literally—and they use it to evade the responsibilities of rhetoric. This book takes the metaphor seriously. Using a series of case studies ranging from the 432 BCE “Debate at Sparta” to Bill O’Reilly’s recent invention of a “War on Christmas,” .Deliberating War .illustrates pathologies of deliberation that arise when a community understands itself to be at political war. This book identifies recurrent rhetorical strategies that constrain or even effectively prohibit deliberation, such as deflecting, reframing, threat inflation, appealing to paired terms, claiming moral license, radicalizing a base. In short, what seems to be an effective solution to an immediate rhetorical problem—using hyperbole and demagoguery to persuade people to adopt a specific leader or policy—is a trap that prevents democratic practices of compromise, deliberation, fairness, reciprocity. Unhappily, threat inflation—even w | 出版日期 | Book 2024 | 关键词 | demagoguery; propaganda; democratic deliberation; rhetoric of war; politics as war; policy argumentation; | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60672-4 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-60674-8 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-60672-4 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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