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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ian E. J. Hill (University of British Columbia)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Volume: 9 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 22.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780271081236ISBN 10: 0271081236 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 28 August 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Technē’s Paradox and Weapons Rhetoric1. Thomas Malthus’s Population Bomb as a Pre-Text for Technē’s Paradox2. Preaching Dynamite: August Spies at the Haymarket Trial3. Humane, All Too Humane: The Chemical-Weapons Advocacyof Major General Amos A. Fries4. Toward a Peaceful Bomb: Leo Szilard’s Paradoxical Life5. Industrial Antipathy: Irreparability and Ted Kaczynski’s IEDsConclusion: In the Presence of Weapons and RhetoricNotesBibliographyIndexReviewsMerging insights from rhetoric, science, and technology studies, Ian Hill analyzes how weapons are simultaneously cast as harbingers of extermination and preservers of peace, revealing novelty and innovation in words about weapons across two centuries. Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism is crisply written, thought-provoking, and hauntingly important. -Lisa Keranen, author of Scientific Characters: Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research This is an impressive first book: well researched, carefully argued, and engagingly written. Hill posits `technological rhetoric' as an original, interdisciplinary perspective on Techne's Paradox. Grounded in thorough readings of rhetorical critique as well as science and technology studies, his longitudinal study of `machine rhetoric' warrants attention both for the cases examined-from Malthus to the Unabomber-and for the individual and collective insights the analysis yields. -David Henry, Sanford Berman Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Merging insights from rhetoric, science, and technology studies, Ian Hill analyzes how weapons are simultaneously cast as harbingers of extermination and preservers of peace, revealing novelty and innovation in words about weapons across two centuries. Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism is crisply written, thought-provoking, and hauntingly important. -Lisa Keranen, author of Scientific Characters: Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research This is an impressive first book: well researched, carefully argued, and engagingly written. Hill posits technological rhetoric as an original, interdisciplinary perspective on Techne's Paradox. Grounded in thorough readings of rhetorical critique as well as Science and Technology Studies, his longitudinal study of machine rhetoric warrants attention both for the cases examined-from Malthus to the Unabomber-and for the individual and collective insights the analysis yields. -David Henry, Sanford Berman Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Merging insights from rhetoric, science, and technology studies, Ian Hill analyzes how weapons are simultaneously cast as harbingers of extermination and preservers of peace, revealing novelty and innovation in words about weapons across two centuries. Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism is crisply written, thought-provoking, and hauntingly important. --Lisa Ker�nen, author of Scientific Characters: Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research This is an impressive first book: well researched, carefully argued, and engagingly written. Hill posits technological rhetoric as an original, interdisciplinary perspective on Techne's Paradox. Grounded in thorough readings of rhetorical critique as well as Science and Technology Studies, his longitudinal study of machine rhetoric warrants attention both for the cases examined--from Malthus to the Unabomber--and for the individual and collective insights the analysis yields. --David Henry, Sanford Berman Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Author InformationIan E. J. Hill is Assistant Professor in the History and Theory of Rhetoric at the University of British Columbia and an affiliate faculty member of the Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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