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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... struggle always and mightily against those moments that are far less proud. As Americans, to our own political culture we owe our final debt. Introduction Holy War by Other Means September 11 seemed to xii | Acknowledgments.
... the attacks have really been less likely had he not brought it up? Instead of tit-for-tat retribution, we think these occurrences are emblematic of the use and abuse of personal character as strategic moves in a complex and 1 Introduction.
... less foreign to us. It requires, in other words, a capacity both for control and for surprise. Reasoned discourse itself is facilitated when we acknowledge we all work from worldviews that we can neither put aside nor fully prove; each ...
... less certainty, to be more rather than less open. Easy demonization of others precludes precisely these qualities. We know it is desirable and think it is possible in democratic politics to step outside of narrow bounds in the ways we ...
... less terrible forms can and do occur, and these have personal and political consequences for the targeted person or group. To suggest that demonization of opponents can be an effective political strategy is hardly novel. Negative ...
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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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