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Advocating weapons, war, and terrorism : technological and rhetorical paradox / Ian E. J. Hill

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Advocating weapons, war, and terrorism : technological and rhetorical paradox / Ian E. J. Hill
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • University Park (Pa.) : The Pennsylvania State University Press
Date de copyright
  • C 2018
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (X-230 p.) : jaquette ill. ; 24 cm
Collection
  • The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric
ISBN
  • 978-0-271-08123-6
  • 978-0-271-08124-3
EAN
  • 9780271081236 rel.
  • 9780271081243 br.
Appartient à la collection
  • The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric edited by Bernard-Donals Michael,... and Ceccarelli Leah,... University Park (Penn.) The Pennsylvania State University press 20XX-...
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 303.66
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. [197]-219. Notes bibliogr. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • Introduction: technē's paradox and weapons rhetoric Thomas Malthus's population bomb as a pre-text for technē's paradox Preaching dynamite : August Spies at the Haymarket trial Humane, all too humane : the chemical-weapons advocacy of Major General Amos A. Fries Toward a peaceful bomb : Leo Szilard's paradoxical life Industrial antipathy : irreparability and Ted Kaczynski's IEDs Conclusion : in the presence of weapons and rhetoric
Résumé ou extrait
  • Présentation de l'éditeur : "Examines commonplace conflicting beliefs that technology will either annihilate humanity or preserve humanity from annihilation. Argues that the paradoxical capacities of weapons influence how humanity understands violent conflict."
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