Henry Ford is remembered in American lore as the ultimate entrepreneur - the man who invented assembly-line manufacturing and made automobiles affordable. This book explores the other side of Ford's career which included publishing antisemitic propaganda.
Excitable Speech examines the issue of the threatening action of words. Negotiating the work of Austin, Derrida and Bourdieu, Butler offers a theory of the political performativity of language and illuminates the efficacy of injurious language.
When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?' - Judith Butler, Excitable Speech Excitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler's most important books. Examining in turn debates about hate speech, pornography and ga…
"[This book] takes on the assumption that limits on free expression will lead to authoritarianism or at least a weakening of democracy. That hypothesis is tested by an examination of issues involving expression and their treatment in countries included on The Economist's list of…
LGBTQI Digital Media Activism and Counter-Hate Speech in Italy analyzes the organizational communication practices of Italian LGBTQI activists. The book investigates digital media activism practices, and how, through artifacts of political engagement, activists are championing s…
Der Wille zum Feind ist tiefster Antrieb des Populismus. Auch seine »Liebe« zu Volk, Familie und Vaterland ist vergiftet. Sie lebt vom Hass auf all jene, die ausgeschlossen werden. Was macht diese Feindausdeutung so attraktiv? Warum findet sie in Medien und Öffentlichkeit und be…
