Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Andrew D. Van Alstyne
• John Collins
• Ross Glover

Titel

Freedom

Ist Teil von

• Collateral Language, 2002, p.79

Ort / Verlag

NYU Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In a September 20 address to a joint session of Congress, President Bush declared, “Tonight we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom.” In the course of the forty-one-minute applause-filled speech, the president used the terms “free” or “freedom” thirteen times. Although he frequently intoned the mantra of freedom, it was as a vague rhetorical device, rather than a substantive exploration of what it actually means. By making freedom sufficiently amorphous, Bush ignored the most democratically important meanings of freedom (e.g., a free press, freedom of assembly) and instead used the term as a device supporting