Public Address and Moral Judgment

by Parry-Giles, Shawn J.

• ISBN13: 9780870138683
• ISBN10: 0870138685
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-11
• Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr

Summary

Public Address and Moral Judgmentoffers a critical look at the ways in which public address can enact moral codes, articulate moral judgments, and manifest ethical tensions. Each chapter carefully examines specific examples of public address for their moral dimensions, exploring how public address functions to articulate and express the ethical tensions of its time and context. The contributors highlight important and often different ways that public address works to expose problematics in ethical tensions - problematics of language and imagery, metaphor and character, genre and definition. The authors are also mindful of the tenuous relationship that exists between rhetoric and morality, between situated public address and a society's ethical foundations. The essays in Public Address and Moral Judgment, on topics ranging from WWII propaganda to the civil rights rhetoric of President George H. W. Bush to the photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison, consider the powerful role of public discourse in the constitution of a moral code for the American people.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Ethical and Moral Judgment and the Power of Public Address	p. xi
Where Is Public Address? George W. Bush, Abu Ghraib, and Contemporary Moral Discourse	p. 1
George H. W. Bush and the Strange Disappearance of Groups from Civil Rights Talk	p. 31
Public Moral Argument on Same-Sex Marriage, 2000-2005: A Narrative Approach	p. 61
Time, Space, and Generic Reconstitution: Martin Luther King's "A Time to Break Silence" as Radical jeremiad	p. 97
From Civilians to Soldiers and Back Again: Domestic Propaganda and the Discourse of Public Reconstitution in the U.S. Treasury's World War II Bond Campaign	p. 127
Constituting Benevolent War and Imperial Peace: U.S. Nationalism and Idyllic Notions of Peace and War	p. 161
The Abu Ghraib Iconic Photographs: Constitutive Spectacles and the Gendering of Public Moralities	p. 203
Conclusion: Public Address and Public Morality	p. 249
Contributors	p. 257
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