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Doomsday Speculation As a Strategy of Persuasion: A Study of Apocalypticism As Rhetoric (STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE RELIGION) - Hardcover
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A study examining Doomsday predictions as a rhetorical ploy, this text argues that assertions regarding the imminent "End of the (or a) World" represent a means of coercion to get others (or the world) to do something or stop doing something. The work focuses on the rhetorical dimension of the doom-sayers' predictions and the special logic of the doomsayer. The author observes how the seemingly outward-directed argument reverts to the self, concluding that predicting doom appears to be objective and to apply to the outside world, but is ultimately subjective, self-serving, and self-centered.
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- PublisherEdwin Mellen Pr
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0889465061
- ISBN 13 9780889465060
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages204
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