The Language of the Liberal Consensus: John F. Kennedy, Technical Reason, and the "New Economics" at Yale University

Autor/in	Murphy, John W.
Titel	The Language of the Liberal Consensus: John F. Kennedy, Technical Reason, and the "New Economics" at Yale University
Quelle	In: Quarterly Journal of Speech, 90 (2004) 2, S.133-162 (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-5630
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Speeches; Presidents; Persuasive Discourse; Rhetorical Invention; Economic Climate; Political Attitudes; Political Campaigns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? President; Präsident; Persuasion; Persuasive Kommunikation; Wirtschaftslage; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung
Abstract	On June 11, 1962, President John F. Kennedy addressed the economy at Yale University. This essay explains the symbolic charge of his economic rhetoric, a persuasive campaign that enjoyed considerable success and marked the first time that a president took explicit responsibility for the nation's economic performance. I argue that the president crafted the authority to take command of the economy through construction of a liberal ethos, the use of dissociation, and a definition of the times. His arguments, in turn, were invented from the liberal matrix that dominated politics in the mid-twentieth-century United States and represent the ways in which that mode of discourse develops a historically contingent and politically powerful form of technical reason. President Kennedy's speech illustrates a set of strategies that can raise the status of one political language above its competitors in the process of public argument. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10