Format:
1 online resource (146 pages)
ISBN:
9781442210547
Content:
The Morality of Spin explores the ethics of political rhetoric crafted to persuade and possibly manipulate potential voters. Based on extensive insider interviews with leaders of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful Christian right organizations in America, Nathaniel Klemp asks whether the tactic of tailoring a message to a particular audience is politically legitimate or amounts to democratic malpractice. Klemp's nuanced assessment, highlighting both democratic vices and virtues of the political rhetoric, provides a welcome contribution to recent scholarship on deliberative democracy, rhetoric, and the growing empirical literature on the American Christian right.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Existing Accounts -- Chapter 1: Deliberative Democracy and Political Rhetoric -- Part II: The Moral Qualities of Rhetorical Speech -- Chapter 2: When Rhetoric Turns Manipulative -- Chapter 3: From Theoretical to Actual Manipulation -- Part III: The Moral Qualities of Rhetorical Context -- Chapter 4: Contextualizing Rhetoric -- Chapter 5: Countercultural Christian Enclaves -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- About the Author.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442210523
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442210523
Language:
English
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