04330nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-60672-4 DE-He213 20251030112338.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240628s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031606724 978-3-031-60672-4 10.1007/978-3-031-60672-4 doi JA85-85.2 JPH bicssc GTC bicssc POL000000 bisacsh JPH thema GTC thema Roberts-Miller, Patricia. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 79508 Deliberating War [electronic resource] / by Patricia Roberts-Miller. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XI, 250 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Choosing War -- Chapter 3: Threatening War -- Chapter 4: Factionalizing War -- Chapter 5: Delaying War -- Chapter 6: Framing War -- Chapter 7: Criticizing War -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Militarizing Politics. Deliberating War is a thorough, insightful, and well-written discussion of how people in the Western tradition deliberate about war and treat deliberation as war. In discussing various kinds of war, and various kinds of deliberating about war, Roberts-Miller illuminates how and why some of these are more dangerous than others. This book is a must-read for scholars in history, political science, and communication who care about war, democracy, and the relationships between them. - Mary E. Stuckey, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Penn State University 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. 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. Patricia Roberts-Miller is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of many books, including Speaking of Race: Constructive Conversations About an Explosive Topic (The Experiment, January 2021), and Rhetoric and Demagoguery, (Southern Illinois UP, 2019), which was a finalist for the Rhetoric Society of America book of the year). Communication in politics. 65259 Communication. 59615 Information theory. 57783 Language and languages Style. 66672 Rhetoric. 66673 Political Communication. 67745 Media and Communication Theory. 71787 Rhetorics. 66676 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031606717 Printed edition: 9783031606731 Printed edition: 9783031606748 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60672-4 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 61102 61102