The morality of spin : virtue and vice in political rhetoric and the Christian right /

The morality of spin : virtue and vice in political rhetoric and the Christian right / Nathaniel J. Klemp.

The Morality of Spin explores the ethics of political rhetoric crafted to persuade and possibly manipulate potential voters. Based on extensive insider interviews with leaders of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful Christian right organizations in America, Nathaniel Klemp asks whether the...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Klemp, Nathaniel J., 1979-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2012.
Subjects:
Focus on the Family (Organization)
Communication in politics > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States.
Deliberative democracy.
Christians > Political activity > United States.
Manipulative behavior > Political aspects > United States.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) > Political aspects > United States.
Christians > Political activity.
Communication in politics > Moral and ethical aspects.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) > Political aspects.
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Existing Accounts
  • ch. 1 Deliberative Democracy and Political Rhetoric: Rawls and Habermas on Rhetoric's Moral Status
  • pt. II Moral Qualities of Rhetorical Speech
  • ch. 2 When Rhetoric Turns Manipulative: Disentangling Persuasion and Manipulation
  • ch. 3 From Theoretical to Actual Manipulation: The Christian Right's Two-Tiered Rhetoric
  • pt. III Moral Qualities of Rhetorical Context
  • ch. 4 Contextualizing Rhetoric: From Contestatory to One-Sided Information Spaces
  • ch. 5 Countercultural Christian Enclaves: Focus on the Family's Anti-Contestatory Practices.

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