The Death of Discourse

ISBN-13: 9780367306618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 320 str.

Ronald K. L. Collins; David M. Skover

Opis

In this innovative book, the authors persuasively argue that the First Amendment to the Constitution has risen in the late twentieth century, like an ill guided individual with knife in hand, to murder a longstanding tradition of fine and meaningful discourse in the United States.

Spis treści

* The Paratroopers Paradox The Huxleyan Crossing The Soma Medium: Its Mechanics & Messages A Rear-View-Mirror Look at the First Amendment Wrestling with the Paradox The First Amendment in Bold ReliefA Dialogue * Commerce And Communication Commerce & Its Handmaiden: Then & Now Commercial Communication & Its Consequences Commerce, Communication & the Constitution Communication & the Capitalist Culture Absolut Protection?A Dialogue * Discourse And Intercourse The Rise of the Pornographic State The Logic of the Erotic Body Politics & the Ambivalent Citizenry War & Pleasure in Pornutopia Rubber, Reason, & Religion in Pornutopia Respectable Stories for an Unrespectable State How Worthy a Tradition?The Last Dialogue * Epilogue Deliberate Lies & Deliberative Democracy The Discourse of Death