Angry Public Rhetorics: Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11

by Celeste Michelle Condit

In Angry Public Rhetorics, Celeste Condit explores emotions as motivators and organizers of collective action--a theory that treats humans as "symbol-using animals" to understand the patterns of leadership in global affairs--to account for the way in which anger produced similar rhetorics in three ideologically diverse voices surrounding 9/11: Osama bin Laden, President George W. Bush, and Susan Sontag.

These voices show that anger...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472130951
• ISBN13: 9780472130955
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"