Eisenhower and the American Sublime

Autor/in	O'Gorman, Ned
Titel	Eisenhower and the American Sublime
Quelle	In: Quarterly Journal of Speech, 94 (2008) 1, S.44-72 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-5630
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; United States History; Weapons; Rhetoric; War; Vision; Presidents; Political Issues; World History; Nationalism; Civics; Moral Values; Social Values; Democracy; Creativity; Religion + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weapon; Waffe; Rhetorik; Krieg; President; Präsident; Politischer Faktor; Weltgeschichte; Nationalismus; Staatsbürgerkunde; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Sozialer Wert; Demokratie; Kreativität
Abstract	This essay presents Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential rhetoric as an iteration of an American synecdochal sublime. Eisenhower's rhetoric sought to re-aim civic sight beyond corporeal objects to the nation's transcendental essence. This rhetoric is intimately connected to prevailing political anxieties and exigencies, especially the problem of "the Bomb" and the related philosophy of deterrence. Over and against the material presence of the atomic bomb, which threatened to concentrate national energies, Eisenhower advanced an expansive vision of national "spiritual" being to which corporeal images could only gesture. Correlatively, he positioned himself as a kind of priestly mediator. Therefore, he not only justified a strong deterrent stance in the Cold War, but made moral sense of it. (Contains 87 notes.) (Author).
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