Angry public rhetorics : global relations and emotion in the wake of 9/11 / Celeste Michelle Condit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Condit, Celeste Michelle, 1956- author.

Series:

Configurations (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

Configurations: critical studies of world politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011.

Bin Laden, Osama.

Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-.

Bush, George W.

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Sontag, Susan.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Rhetoric.

Anger--Social aspects.

Anger.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

International relations--Social aspects.

International relations.

Physical Description:

x, 338 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]

Summary:

In Angry Public Rhetorics, Celeste Condit explores emotions as motivators and organizers of collective action--a theory that treats humans as "symbol-using animals" to understand the patterns of leadership in global affairs--to account for the way in which anger produced similar rhetorics in three ideologically diverse voices surrounding 9/11: Osama bin Laden, President George W. Bush, and Susan Sontag. These voices show that anger is more effective for producing some collective actions, such as rallying supporters, reifying existing worldviews, motivating attack, enforcing shared norms, or threatening from positions of power; and less effective for others, like broadening thought, attracting new allies, adjudicating justice across cultural norms, or threatening from positions of weakness. Because social anger requires shared norms, collectivized anger cannot serve social justice. In order for anger to be a force for global justice, the world's peoples must develop shared norms to direct discussion of international relations. Angry Public Rhetorics provides guidance for such public forums.

Contents:

An onto-epistemological integration of symbolic and biological being

Emotions as distributions of fuzzy complexes

A resonant script for angry public rhetoric

Osama bin Laden's righteous anger

President Bush's national anger

Susan Sontag's angry howl

What should we do next?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Condit, Celeste Michelle, 1956- Angry public rhetorics.

ISBN:

9780472130955

0472130951

OCLC:

1032291260