In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Politics, Rhetoric, and Self-Defense

Szerző: Rachel L. Holloway

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Praeger Publishers

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In June 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission determined that J. Robert Oppenheimer, wartime director o...

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Szerző

Rachel L. Holloway

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

1993

oldal

144

EAN

9780275944292

ISBN

0275944298

Enbook ID

04567294

Kiadó

Praeger Publishers

Súly

361

Méretek

157 x 235 x 12

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In June 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission determined that J. Robert Oppenheimer, wartime director of the Manhattan Project and Father of the Atomic Bomb, was a security risk. Consequently, America's most prominent scientist was removed from government service. In contrast to historical and political explanations of the Oppenheimer case, Holloway explores the role that rhetoric played in Oppenheimer's demise. In doing so, the author draws attention to the symbolic nature of politics and character and highlights the significant interaction of political and scientific terminologies in American discourse. Holloway's analysis and evaluation suggest that the accusations against Oppenheimer used the most powerful terms of the mid-1950s--communism, progress, and science--to legitimize the government's questionable action. Oppenheimer, for his part, failed to use his most strategic rhetorical resources in his defense, and therefore participated in his own ruin. Holloway highlights the rhetorical interaction among accusation, self-defense, and decision statements through a microscopic rhetorical analysis of the case's five central documents. An original extension and refinement of Kenneth Burke's cluster-agon method, which Holloway calls terminological algebra, is proposed as a systematic analytical tool consistent with Burke's theories. Recommended for critics of rhetoric and political communication.

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