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Place in the Liberal Arts
An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Text and Topos
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
734 kr
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This book explains the enduring significance of topos, an Aristotelian translation of the concept of place, by exploring how place shapes the kinds of arguments we make, texts we produce, the arts and technology we use.In tracing the intellectual lineage of topos from classical rhetorical theory to contemporary digital discourse, the chapters demonstrate the ongoing relevance of place to the formation of thought, identity, arts, and arguments in the modern world. It offers both a foundational academic text for civics education and a call to reclaim topos as a critical tool for reasoning in an age oversaturated with online messages and fragmented discourse.This work takes a unique, artful, and interdisciplinary approach, linking classical philosophical and rhetorical frameworks to contemporary educational and cultural challenges. It will appeal to a broad set of diverse academic audiences across the humanities and social sciences, including rhetoric, philosophy, history, literature, and religious studies, place studies, legal studies, and public intellectuals interested in discourse and argumentation.
432 kr
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Given on January 5, 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine Address forever changed America’s relationship with the Middle East. In the aftermath of the Suez Crisis, President Dwight D. Eisenhower boldly declared that the United States would henceforth serve as the region’s “protector of freedom” against Communist aggression. Eighteen months later the president invoked the Eisenhower Doctrine, landing troops in Lebanon and setting an enduring precedent for U.S. intervention in the Middle East.How did Eisenhower justify this intervention to an American public wary of foreign entanglements? Why did he boldly issue the doctrine that bears his name? And, most important, how has Eisenhower’s rhetoric continued to influence American policy and perception of the Middle East? Randall Fowler answers these questions and more in More Than a Doctrine. With the expansion of America’s global influence and the executive branch’s power, presidential rhetoric has become an increasingly important tool in U.S. foreign policy-nowhere more so than in the Middle East. By examining Eisenhower’s rhetoric, More Than a Doctrine explores how the argumentative origins of the Eisenhower Doctrine Address continue to impact us today.
Securing the Prize
Presidential Metaphor and US Intervention in the Persian Gulf
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
340 kr
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How presidential metaphors have shaped US discourse on the Persian Gulf From the 1970s to the 1990s American presidents and their advisers introduced four metaphors into foreign-policy discourse that taught Americans to view the Persian Gulf as a vulnerable region and site of US responsibility on the world stage. In Securing the Prize: Presidential Metaphor and US Intervention in the Persian Gulf Randall Fowler argues that, for half a century, metaphor has been central to defining America's role in the Middle East. Metaphors served as shorthand for presidents to promote their policies, filtering through the judgments of officials, journalists, experts, and critics to mediate American's perceptions of the Gulf War. Tracing the use of security metaphors from President Richard Nixon to President George W. Bush, Fowler revises mainstream understandings regarding the origins of the war on terror and explains the disconnect between skeptical public attitudes toward US involvement in the Gulf War and the heavy American military footprint in the region.
Securing the Prize
Presidential Metaphor and US Intervention in the Persian Gulf
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 232 kr
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How presidential metaphors have shaped US discourse on the Persian Gulf From the 1970s to the 1990s American presidents and their advisers introduced four metaphors into foreign-policy discourse that taught Americans to view the Persian Gulf as a vulnerable region and site of US responsibility on the world stage. In Securing the Prize: Presidential Metaphor and US Intervention in the Persian Gulf Randall Fowler argues that, for half a century, metaphor has been central to defining America's role in the Middle East. Metaphors served as shorthand for presidents to promote their policies, filtering through the judgments of officials, journalists, experts, and critics to mediate American's perceptions of the Gulf War. Tracing the use of security metaphors from President Richard Nixon to President George W. Bush, Fowler revises mainstream understandings regarding the origins of the war on terror and explains the disconnect between skeptical public attitudes toward US involvement in the Gulf War and the heavy American military footprint in the region.
1 524 kr
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Ronald Reagan’s pivotal role in reshaping norms of U.S. conduct, engagement, and intervention in the Middle East comprises a crucial and, until now, underappreciated element of his presidential legacy.Encountering a region on the cusp of political change, Reagan sent troops into warzones, secured access to oil, passed trade deals, bombed terrorist facilities, bickered with allies, sold advanced weapons, fought radical insurgents, and did much else to create the modern Middle East. He was in constant dialogue with leaders from Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and other regional powers. As the most influential president of the second half of the twentieth century, Reagan employed his uncommon communicative gifts to interpret these happenings for his fellow citizens as he guided U.S. policy in the region. Reagan articulated and instituted three principles that have guided U.S. defense strategy in the Middle East for decades. These doctrines are (1) Israel is a strategic ally, (2) state-sponsored terrorism is an act of war, and (3) the United States is holistically committed to Persian Gulf security. In bringing these elements together, this book reconsiders Reagan’s inimitable legacy on U.S. politics and international affairs. Readers curious about how presidential rhetoric shapes foreign policy will find a persuasive case that Reagan did as much as any leader since World War II to cement U.S. power in the Arabic-speaking world.