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Metaphorical World Politics (Rhetoric & Public Affairs) Paperback – November 30, 2004
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Metaphorical World Politics argues that language and metaphor are important parts of international political reality. Metaphors and world politics have appeared together many times in recent history. The blended space that results is metaphorical world politics, a real- world game for political and scientific actors. This collection picks up the challenge to unravel the game, to examine its rules, to clarify the mixture of images and facts that is so real in politics but so exceptional in science. Scholars have studied metaphor mostly from a linguistic or a literary point of view. This work forces those primarily interested in metaphors to think about applications and implications beyond the text. Others concerned mainly with world politics may consider how metaphors may help to energize and structure international political thought and action.
Scholars have most often studied world politics embedded in so-called "facts." Metaphorical World Politics shows that facts are misleading in their compactness, that facts are often meaningless, that metaphors in contrast are energetic processors of meaning, and that facts in world politics are nothing more than weak emulsions of metaphor. This work outlines the general place of metaphor on the map of politics and highlights the location of specific metaphors on the political terrain.
- Print length342 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMichigan State University Press
- Publication dateNovember 30, 2004
- Dimensions6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100870137263
- ISBN-13978-0870137266
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Francis A. Beer is Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder. His most recent book is Meanings of War and Peace. Other works include Post Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations (with Robert Hariman), Peace Against War: The Ecology of International Violence, and Integration and Disintegration in NATO: Processes of Alliance Cohesion and Prospects for Atlantic Community.
Christ’l De Landtsheer is Professor of Communication at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She is a co-editor, with Ofer Feldman, of Politically Speaking: A Worldwide Examination of Language Used in the Public SphereBeyond Public Speech and Symbols: Explorations in the Rhetoric of Politicians and the Media. Two of her recent books deal with Political Impression Management in Flanders and in The Netherlands and with Integrating Cross National Research on Authoritarianism, Socialization, Communications and Youth Policy.
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- Publisher : Michigan State University Press (November 30, 2004)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 342 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0870137263
- ISBN-13 : 978-0870137266
- Item Weight : 1.05 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,396,032 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,833 in Rhetoric (Books)
- #13,324 in Linguistics Reference
- #15,040 in Political Philosophy (Books)
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