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Flash effect : science and the rhetorical origins of Cold War America
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Flash effect : science and the rhetorical origins of Cold War America

Author: David J Tietge
Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David J Tietge
ISBN: 082141433X 9780821414330 0821414348 9780821414347
OCLC Number: 48920554
Description: xvii, 199 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Theoretical perspectives on the rhetoric of science. Further theoretical foundations for the rhetoric of science -- A way to study the rhetoric of science -- Precedents for science as the emerging hegemony. Philosophical implications : Bacon and Descartes -- Darwin and the roots of the evolution/creation controversy -- The new age of science. Profile of the scientist : the iconographic mythos -- The popular press, the popular scientist, and the solubility ethos -- Responses to Sputnik -- New anxieties, new solutions, and nonnuclear science. Other sources of cold war anxiety --The symbolic megaphone of life -- Dominant attitudes -- The images, metaphors, and religious symbolism of science. Theory of dominant metaphors -- Key metaphors of the cold war -- The convergent manifestation of the Trinity Test and Hiroshima bombings. Machines and man -- "Control and smooth performance" -- The metaphorical cycle -- Conclusion : cold war leftovers.
Responsibility: David J. Tietge.
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