Deliberating War

Roberts-Miller, Patricia

Deliberating War
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-06-28
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 250
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 303160671X
  • ISBN-13: 9783031606717

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商品描述

This book argues that treating politics as war derails essential democratic processes, including deliberation and policy argumentation, in complicated ways. "Politics is war" is not always just a figure of speech, but often a sincere expression of how people see disagreement--they mean it literally--and they use it to evade the responsibilities of rhetoric. This book takes the metaphor seriously. Using a series of case studies ranging from the 432 BCE "Debate at Sparta" to Bill O'Reilly's recent invention of a "War on Christmas," Deliberating War illustrates pathologies of deliberation that arise when a community understands itself to be at political war. This book identifies recurrent rhetorical strategies that constrain or even effectively prohibit deliberation, such as deflecting, reframing, threat inflation, appealing to paired terms, claiming moral license, radicalizing a base. In short, what seems to be an effective solution to an immediate rhetorical problem--using hyperbole and demagoguery to persuade people to adopt a specific leader or policy--is a trap that prevents democratic practices of compromise, deliberation, fairness, reciprocity. Unhappily, threat inflation--even when well-intentioned--At some point, hyperbolic rhetoric becomes threat inflation, and then that inflated threat becomes the premise of policies, both foreign and domestic. And then agreeing as to the obvious existential threat posed by the Other and uniting behind the obvious policy solution is a necessary sign of being on the side of Good. Once communities become persuaded that they are in an apocalyptic battle between Good and Evil, politics as war can quickly become real war--often with far-reaching and catastrophic consequences.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書主張將政治視為戰爭會使重要的民主過程，包括辯論和政策辯論，以複雜的方式偏離軌道。"政治就是戰爭"不僅僅是一種修辭手法，而且通常是人們對於分歧的真誠表達，他們字面上這麼說，並用它來逃避修辭的責任。這本書認真對待這個隱喻。通過一系列案例研究，從公元前432年的"斯巴達辯論"到比爾·奧賴利最近發明的"聖誕戰爭"，《辯論戰爭》說明了當一個社群認為自己處於政治戰爭中時，辯論中出現的病態現象。這本書確定了一些反覆出現的修辭策略，這些策略限制甚至有效地禁止了辯論，例如偏轉、重新定義、威脅誇大、呼應對立詞、聲稱道德許可、激化基礎。簡而言之，對於一個即時的修辭問題，似乎是一個有效的解決方案-使用誇張和煽動性言辭說服人們接受特定的領導者或政策-這是一個阻礙民主妥協、辯論、公平和互惠的陷阱。不幸的是，威脅誇大-即使出於善意-在某個時候，誇張的修辭變成了威脅誇大，然後這種誇大的威脅成為國內外政策的前提。然後，對於其他人所構成的明顯存在威脅以及團結在明顯的政策解決方案後面，成為站在善的一方的必要標誌。一旦社群被說服他們處於善與惡的末日之戰中，政治作為戰爭很快就會變成真正的戰爭-通常帶來深遠而災難性的後果。

作者簡介

Patricia Roberts-Miller, formerly Director of the University Writing Center and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, is a scholar of train wrecks in public deliberation--that is, times that communities made decisions they later regretted, although they had all the information they needed to make better ones. She is the author of Speaking of Race: Constructive Conversations About an Explosive Topic (The Experiment, January 2021), Rhetoric and Demagoguery, (Southern Illinois UP, 2019; finalist Rhetoric Society of America book of the year), Demagoguery and Democracy (The Experiment, 2017), Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus (University of Alabama Press, 2009), Deliberate Conflict: Composition Classes and Political Spaces (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004), Voices in the Wilderness: The Paradox of the Puritan Public Sphere (University of Alabama Press, 1999), and various book chapters and articles.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Patricia Roberts-Miller，前德州大學奧斯汀分校寫作中心主任和修辭與寫作系名譽教授，是公共討論中災難性決策的學者，即社區在擁有所有必要資訊的情況下做出後悔的決定。她是以下書籍的作者：Speaking of Race: Constructive Conversations About an Explosive Topic（The Experiment，2021年1月）、Rhetoric and Demagoguery（Southern Illinois UP，2019年；美國修辭學會年度書籍獎入圍）、Demagoguery and Democracy（The Experiment，2017年）、Fanatical Schemes: Proslavery Rhetoric and the Tragedy of Consensus（University of Alabama Press，2009年）、Deliberate Conflict: Composition Classes and Political Spaces（Southern Illinois University Press，2004年）、Voices in the Wilderness: The Paradox of the Puritan Public Sphere（University of Alabama Press，1999年），以及多篇書籍章節和文章。

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