Creatures of Politics
Title | Creatures of Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Lempert |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2012-09-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0253007453 |
This book explores political communication in American presidential politics, focusing on what political insiders call "message." The authors argue that message is not just the individual's positions on the issues but the craft used to fashion the creature the public sees as the candidate. They examine some of the revelatory moments in debates, political ads, interviews, speeches, and talk shows to explain how these political creations come to have a life of their own.
Creatures of Politics
Title | Creatures of Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Silverstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2012-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780253009203 |
Creatures of Politics
Title | Creatures of Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Lempert |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2012-09-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0253007569 |
This analysis of campaign messaging and image-making is “a fascinating read and an illuminating look into the complex realm of political rhetoric” (Publishers Weekly). It’s a common complaint that a presidential candidate’s style matters more than substance and that the issues have been eclipsed by mass-media-fueled obsession with a candidate’s every slip, gaffe, and peccadillo. This book explores political communication in American presidential politics, focusing on what insiders call “message.” Message, Michael Lempert and Michael Silverstein argue, is not simply an individual’s positions on the issues but the craft used to fashion the creature the public sees as the candidate. Lempert and Silverstein examine some of the revelatory moments in debates, political ads, interviews, speeches, and talk shows to explain how these political creations come to have a life of their own. From the pandering “Flip-Flopper” to the self-reliant “Maverick,” the authors demonstrate how these figures are fashioned out of the verbal, gestural, sartorial, behavioral—as well as linguistic—matter that comprises political communication. “This book captures better than any other the way ‘messaging’ works . . . their lively account of the culture of presidential communication remains sensitive to both the comedy and the seriousness of its subject.” —Michael Warner, Yale University
The Political Animal
Title | The Political Animal PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Paxman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN | 9780718146061 |
The Political Lives of Victorian Animals
Title | The Political Lives of Victorian Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Feuerstein |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2019-07-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108492967 |
Examines how liberal thought influenced representations of animals within nineteenth-century animal welfare discourse and the Victorian novel.
Biocultural Creatures
Title | Biocultural Creatures PDF eBook |
Author | Samantha Frost |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2016-05-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0822374358 |
In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of subjectivity that rest on a distinction between biology and culture, Frost proposes that humans are biocultural creatures who quite literally are cultured within the material, social, and symbolic worlds they inhabit. Through discussions about carbon, the functions of cell membranes, the activity of genes and proteins, the work of oxygen, and the passage of time, Frost recasts questions about the nature of matter, identity, and embodiment. In doing so, she elucidates the imbrication of the biological and cultural within the corporeal self. In remapping the relation of humans to their habitats and arriving at the idea that humans are biocultural creatures, Frost provides new theoretical resources for responding to political and environmental crises and for thinking about how to transform the ways we live.
The Political Animal
Title | The Political Animal PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen R L Clark |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2002-01-04 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134658591 |
People, as Aristotle said, are political animals. Mainstream political philosophy, however, has largely neglected humankind's animal nature as beings who are naturally equipped, and inclined, to reason and work together, create social bonds and care for their young. Stephen Clark, grounded in biological analysis and traditional ethics, probes into areas ignored in mainstream political theory and argues for the significance of social bonds which bypass or transcend state authority. Understanding the ties that bind us reveals how enormously capable we are in achieving civil order as a species. Stephen Clark advocates that a properly informed political philosophy must take into account the role of women, children, animals, minorities and the domestic virtues at large. Living and comnducting our political lives like the animals we are is a more congenial prospect than is usually supposed.