The Role of Rhetoric in Politics and the Media - Softcover

Anforth, Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1035866218 ISBN 13: 9781035866212

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers, 2024

Synopsis

The rise of rhetoric is a danger to liberal democracies and a powerful tool for the would-be autocrat. The danger lies in the ease with which sizeable parts of the population are persuaded to adopt the most implausible propositions, on the basis of nothing more than the assertions of a self-interested orator. On a daily basis it is these same techniques that drive all manner of conspiracy theories.
The author hopes that by listing and explaining some of these rhetorical devices, the more gullible members of the public may recognise when they are being manipulated and resist it

About this title

About the Author

Allan Anforth is a practicing barrister in Canberra, Australia, a part-time academic lawyer at the University of Canberra and a publisher of various texts on certain areas of law. He has been awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to the law. He also has a prior short-career and lifetime interest in mathematics, physics, astronomy, philosophy and theology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1035866218
• ISBN 13: 9781035866212
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210