The Intellectual and Political Communication: The Case of Michael Ignatieff - Couverture souple

Wilson, Everett A.

 
9783838344157: The Intellectual and Political Communication: The Case of Michael Ignatieff
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3838344154 ISBN 13 : 9783838344157
Editeur : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Something happened when Michael Ignatieff left his position at Harvard in 2005, and returned home to face the floodlights of the political arena in Canada. By the time he won his first seat in the Federal Election in January 2006, and then announced his bid for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada in April, the writer added the cloak of a politician to his existing wardrobe of public identities. Drawing on an analysis of his published work, speeches and appearances in print-media, this study follows his entrance into politics and charts how his discursive strategies changed in the course of his encounter with power. The first half of the book elaborates an interpretive framework based on insights from theories on the fraught relationship between politics and intellect. Four ideal-typical orientations to public life are offered for comparison, which are then applied in the second half of the book as a heuristic for understanding Ignatieff's rhetoric. Both the theoretical frame and the analysis should interest students of politics, communication, intellectual history and the sociology of knowledge, or anyone wanting to know more about this controversial public figure.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Something happened when Michael Ignatieff left his position at Harvard in 2005, and returned home to face the floodlights of the political arena in Canada. By the time he won his first seat in the Federal Election in January 2006, and then announced his bid for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada in April, the writer added the cloak of a politician to his existing wardrobe of public identities. Drawing on an analysis of his published work, speeches and appearances in print-media, this study follows his entrance into politics and charts how his discursive strategies changed in the course of his encounter with power. The first half of the book elaborates an interpretive framework based on insights from theories on the fraught relationship between politics and intellect. Four ideal-typical orientations to public life are offered for comparison, which are then applied in the second half of the book as a heuristic for understanding Ignatieff's rhetoric. Both the theoretical frame and the analysis should interest students of politics, communication, intellectual history and the sociology of knowledge, or anyone wanting to know more about this controversial public figure.

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Éditeur
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3838344154
ISBN 13 
9783838344157
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
164
Coordonnées du fabricant
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