Author : Catherine Chaput
Release : 2010
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 852/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Entertaining Fear by : Catherine Chaput
Download or read book Entertaining Fear written by Catherine Chaput. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the political spectrum, successful arguments often rely on fear appeals, whether implicit or explicit. Dominant arguments prey on people's fears - of economic failure, cultural backwardness, or lack of personal safety. Counterarguments feed on other fears, suggesting that audiences are being duped by emotional smokescreens. With chapters on the political, institutional, and cultural manifestations of fear, this book offers diverse investigations into how insecurity and the search for certainty shape contemporary political economic decisions, and explores how the rhetorical manipulation of such fears illuminates a larger struggle for social control.