UID:
edoccha_9961447740702883
Format:
1 online resource (356 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
3-031-51833-0
Note:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1: Self-Staging: Aura and Appearance -- Charisma, Aura, Artifice -- Confidence Artists -- Acting and Role-Playing -- Charm, Calm, and Fake Anger -- Absolutism -- Real and Fake Expertise -- Theatre and Politics -- Politics as Theatre -- Propaganda -- Saviour from Above -- Another Saviour from Above -- Photography -- A Long Tie and a Short Moustache -- 2: Corruption and Money -- Trumpworld: An Embarrassment of Riches -- Hitler's Early Profits -- The Reichskanzler and His Riches -- The Paladins' Perks -- The Brown Swamp -- Two Forms of Corruption -- 3: Enemies, Scapegoats, and Conspiracy Theories -- The Community and Its Others -- Scapegoats -- Populism as Participatory Authoritarianism -- The Container Approach -- Conspiracy Theories -- 4: The Establishment, the Elite, and the Experts -- The Establishment in the Crossfire -- Why Establishment-Bashing Makes Us Feel Good -- Can Politics Ever Be the Will of the People? -- Are Elites Really That Bad? -- Emotion Versus Expertise -- 5: Identity and Negative Myths -- Stories Are Us -- Aristotle Was Right -- Lie to Me -- Collective Identity and Myth -- The Myth Gap I: Times of Crisis -- The Myth Gap II: Dignity -- Filling the Myth Gap I: Conflict-based Storytelling -- Filling the Myth Gap II: Negative Myths -- 6: Leadership Style -- Ways of Working -- Emotional Distance -- Follow the News: Shape the Narrative -- Informal Decision-making, Opportunism, Social Darwinism, and the Power of the Will -- Divide and Rule -- Collaboration, Loyalty, and Self-denial -- 7: Speeches, Lies, and Narrative (Un-)Truth -- Speaking as Performance -- Jokes and Insults -- Violence and Strategic Controversy -- Entertainment, Community, and Individual Empowerment -- Simplicity, Repetition, and Interpretative Openness -- Making the Country Great Again -- Emotions and Dreams.
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Extremism and Exaggeration -- Twitter -- Narrative (Un-)truth -- Narrative (Un-)truth, Continued: Truthiness and Group Identity -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-031-51832-2
Language:
English
