Although public nudity as a form of political action has a history stretching back at least as far as Lady Godiva, Naked Politics: Nudity, Political Action, and the Rhetoric of the Body by Brett Lunceford, is one of the few books that examine political nudity from a rhetorical standpoint. Beginning with the notion that the body itself is communicative beyond the ability to speak, this work examines a variety of cases in which people employ the disrobed body for political ends.
After six years of covering politics for 'The Evening Herald', 'The Irish Examiner' and 'Ireland on Sunday', Katie Hannon is writing 'The Naked Politician' partly in an effort to discover the answer to a question that has long been a source of intrigue and fascination: why do any of them do it?
Public Nudity and the Rhetoric of the Body examines instances of public nudity where sexuality is at the forefront of public body display. It presents case studies that raise discussions about identity, self-determination, and sexuality, and illustrate the complicated rhetorical nature of the human body in the public sphere.
Previously published as Naked Diplomacy. Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? In the next 100 years, the world will need to deal with the same amount of social development witnessed in the last 43 centuries - from the rebirth of the city state, the battle for new energy, and disappearing borders, to the desire of the world's people to move to developed nations. Tom Fletcher, a former British ambassador - and the youngest appointed for 200 years - explores the core principles of a progressive 21st century foreign policy: how to balance interventionism and national interest, use global governance to achieve national objectives and set out an agenda for representative international systems. Alongside wisdom from history's most influential global leaders and diplomats - Talleyrand, Kissinger, Mandela and the Kennedys included - he analyses the rise of smart power, soft power and the new interventionism. Offering real-world examples of how diplomacy continues to have a significant impact on people's lives, and why it will continue to do so, Fletcher asks leaders: Who do you represent? And how can you do it better? 'Naked Diplomacy' provides the answers for our digital age.
Based on an analysis of American anti-Communist politics in the 1950s, the book presents parallel readings of modernism and popular fiction by concentrating on four recurrent figures (the world, the enemy, the secret, the catastrophe) in order to show that the two cultural fields participated in a common ideological program.
The notorious pornographer and defender of the First Amendment rights, who is fed up with the current state of our government, shares his thoughts on a vast array of issues, including sex, the War on Terror, the Bush administration, religion, feminism, entrepreneurism, and privacy. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
When Richard John Neuhaus' influential book ""The Naked Public Square"" was published twenty-five years ago, the title metaphor quickly came to symbolize - and embolden - growing discontent with the extreme secularization of American public life. Thanks to Neuhaus, during the last quarter century the image of the 'naked public square' has been used as an effective rhetorical device to counter the trite and misleading 'wall of separation' metaphor popularized by many secularists. Still, the debate about religion and politics continues to rage in both the practical and the theoretical arenas. The contributors to this book reexamine the issues raised by ""The Naked Public Square"" in light of contemporary trends, debates, and jurisprudence. Gerard Bradley and Mary Ann Glendon debate whether the constitutional law has become more or less 'strict separationist' since the publication of ""The Naked Public Square"". Joseph Weiler discusses the implications of European elites' refusal to include a reference to Christianity in the proposed European Constitution. A number of contributors - Michael Pakaluk, John Finnis, Rogers Smith, and William Galston - point out the theoretical inadequacy of John Rawls' concept of 'public reason', which has been used to exclude religious arguments from public discourse, but they offer quite different theoretical frameworks for understanding the relation of politics and religion. Hadley Arkes and Richard John Neuhaus reflect on ""The Naked Public Square"" and subsequent developments in America. The result is an invaluable combination of legal analysis and theoretical reflection on religion and politics, an issue that is destined to remain central to American political and social affairs.
This book shows how political inaction has shaped the politics, economy and society we recognize today, despite the fact that policymakers are incentivised to act and to be seen to act decisively. Politicians make decisions which affect our lives every day but in our combative Westminster system, are usually only held to account for those which change something. But what about decisions to do nothing? What about policy which is discarded in favour of an alternative? What about opposition for naked political advantage? This book argues that not only is policy inaction an overlooked part of British politics but also that it is just as important as active policy and can have just as significant an impact on society. Addressing the topic for perhaps the first time, it offers a provocative analysis of ‘do nothing’ politics. It shows why politicians are rarely incentivized to do nothing, preferring hyperactivity. It explores the philosophical and structural drivers of inaction when it happens and highlights the contradictions in behavior. It explains why Attlee and Thatcher enjoyed lasting policy legacies to this day, and considers the nature of opposition and the challenge of holding ‘do nothing’ policy decisions to account.
