Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers!: Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American PoliticsNYU Press, 2005 - Всего страниц: 228 The level of vitriol in American politics has been rising with no end in sight. Terms like “evildoer,” “war on terror,” and “axis of evil” have become commonplace in our discussion of international politics. What ever happened to civil debate? Where has all this moralizing come from? And what harm has this new level of attack caused to democracy in America? |
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... identity and social purposes, and thereby make the effort to tame demonization. One step in this direction is to understand the distinctive and contemporary ways our western heritage, often believing itself free of superstition ...
... identity assaulted by an enemy whose own character is intrinsic to the wrong that “status anxiety,” was perpetrated. Consequently, one must expose the ways these wrongs flow from the private life of the individual. People too often are ...
... identity needs or the political pressure to denigrate others. The line separating legitimate moral concern and a politics of demonization is, within reason, contestable. There is a vast difference between appropriate moral judgment and ...
... identity to flourish. Yet paradoxically, in a land where all except the Native Americans were from abroad, and now freed from Old World persecution, it became hard for puritans to build and sustain a 36 | The Politics of Moral Personae.
... identity. According to Morone, “The Puritans groped back to the tried and true— they found terrible new enemies to define them. The saints constructed their 'us' against a vivid series of immoral 'them': heretics, Indians, witches. Each ...
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Americas Moral Paradox | 44 |
4 The Deep Divide and the Most Vulnerable | 64 |
Part II
Demonization and Wars Seeking the Enemy | 85 |
6 Terror Evil and the New Cold War | 102 |
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Terror Wars and Culture Wars | 129 |
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Preserve the Environment Become an Environmental Sport | 149 |
Conclusion | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Index | 221 |
About the Authors | 228 |
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