Rhetoric and Demagoguery by Patricia Roberts-Miller - 9780809337125

Name: Rhetoric and Demagoguery by Patricia Roberts-Miller - 9780809337125
Brand: Southern Illinois University Press

Southern Illinois University Press

Rhetoric and DemagogueryAuthor(s): Patricia Roberts-Miller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Southern Illinois University Press, United States\nImprint: Southern Illinois University Press\nISBN-13: 9780809337125, 978-0809337125\nSynopsis\nIn a culture of profit-driven media, demagoguery is a savvy short-term rhetorical strategy. Once it becomes the norm, individuals are more likely to employ it and, in that way, increase its power by making it seem the only way of disagreeing with or about others. When that happens, arguments about policy are replaced by arguments about identityand criticism is met with accusations that the critic has the wrong identity (weak, treacherous, membership in an out-group) or the wrong feelings (uncaring, heartless).\n\nPatricia Roberts-Miller proposes a definition of demagoguery based on her study of groups and cultures that have talked themselves into disastrously bad decisions. She argues for seeing demagoguery as a way for people to participate in public .