The Rhetoric of Manipulation: Unmasking Semantic Perversions - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765100813UPC:9798765100813Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes, Comparative LiteratureBook Topic:PoliticsSize:8.93 x 6.18 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCN167AWW8
The Rhetoric of Manipulation: Unmasking Semantic Perversions
A provocative and timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.
The Rhetoric of Manipulation looks behind the curtain of political and social communications in the age of "fake news" and the "post-truth" to show how the perversely engineered semantics at work today shapes culture...Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765100813UPC:9798765100813Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes, Comparative LiteratureBook Topic:PoliticsSize:8.93 x 6.18 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCN167AWW8
Robert Harvey is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Philosophy, Stony Brook University, USA. His publications include Sharing Common Ground: A Space for Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2017), Parmi les gisants: penser le cimeti?re (2024), and Witnessness: Beckett, Levi, Dante and the Foundations of Ethics (Continuum, 2010).
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