At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture Book

Anyone who watches the evening news is all too familiar with how the word "monster" is used to describe acts of violence. In this book, Edward Ingebretsen sets out to discover what is really at stake when we turn someone into a "monster." The monster, he finds, serves a moralizing function in our culture, making exaggerated examples of particular evildoers in order to reaffirm prevailing standards of behavior and personal conduct.Read More

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  • 0226380076
  • 9780226380070
  • E Ingebretsen
  • 2 December 2003
  • Chicago University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 355
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