Maat aug 2026 (3 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - In a world where power is exercised through both weapons and words, Grammars of Power: How Syntactic Structures Shape Authority offers an unprecedented investigation into the relationship between the form of language and the exercise of domination. Spanning ecclesiastical, political, legal, and totalitarian discourse, this work demonstrates how grammatical choices-such as the use of passives, impersonal constructions, subordinate clauses, or deontic statements-are never neutral: they shape the perception of reality, obscure agents of power, and reinforce symbolic hierarchies.From papal bulls to court rulings, from imperial proclamations to Nazi and Stalinist rhetoric, the book reveals that syntax is a political technology as sophisticated as any system of physical control. Supported by tools from discourse analysis, formal logic, computational linguistics, and historical corpora, Grammars of Power offers a new critical perspective on the invisible mechanisms that regulate thought through language.Combining theoretical clarity with academic rigor, this work not only examines the past, but also provides tools for interpreting the language of contemporary power-from algorithms to state discourse-at a time when words have once again become a battleground.Work Papers is a publication series that brings together independent research on power, ideology, legitimacy, and history from a transversal and interdisciplinary perspective. Each volume stands as an autonomous work, while contributing to a common thread: the critical analysis of how power is structured, exercised, and sustained over time.From Ancient Egypt to the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century, from medieval theology to contemporary algorithms, this series explores the historical, linguistic, technological, and symbolic mechanisms that shape our societies. Power is understood here as a deep structure that traverses institutions, languages, myths, technologies, and bodies.Each volume is numbered according to its place in this evolving series. Working Papers thus offers an intellectual architecture through which the reader can explore various forms of domination and resistance-from the most visible to the most invisible.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Between 1920 and 1933, the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) made propaganda a central component of its political and electoral organization. This book examines that process in the context of the crisis of the Weimar Republic and analyzes how message simplification, repetition, public staging, construction of the adversary, and personalization of leadership expanded the movement's capacity for mobilization. Drawing on speeches by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, the party press, visual material, and historiographical sources, Propaganda Machinery examines the rhetorical and organizational devices that structured National Socialist communication. The analysis pays particular attention to the relationship among language, political emotions, symbols, media of dissemination, and audience segmentation. The approach combines political history, linguistics, rhetoric, and discourse analysis. Propaganda is not presented as a single cause of the Nazi rise to power, but as an instrument whose effectiveness depended on economic, institutional, and social conditions, party organization, and, increasingly, political violence. The study distinguishes party propaganda before 1933 from the state system of propaganda, censorship, and cultural coordination developed after the seizure of power. This distinction makes it possible to examine more precisely which resources were used in electoral competition and which belonged to the subsequent institutionalization of dictatorship.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Entre 1920 y 1933, el Partido Nacionalsocialista Alemán (NSDAP) convirtió la propaganda en un componente central de su organización política y electoral. Este libro examina ese proceso en el contexto de la crisis de la República de Weimar y analiza cómo la simplificación del mensaje, la repetición, la escenificación pública, la construcción del adversario y la personalización del liderazgo ampliaron la capacidad de movilización del movimiento. A partir de discursos de Adolf Hitler y Joseph Goebbels, prensa partidaria, material visual y fuentes historiográficas, Maquinaria de Propaganda estudia los dispositivos retóricos y organizativos que articularon la comunicación nacionalsocialista. El análisis presta especial atención a la relación entre lenguaje, emociones políticas, símbolos, medios de difusión y segmentación de públicos. El enfoque combina historia política, lingüística, retórica y análisis del discurso. La propaganda no se presenta como una causa única del ascenso nazi, sino como un instrumento cuya eficacia dependió de condiciones económicas, institucionales y sociales, de la organización partidaria y, de forma creciente, de la violencia política. El estudio distingue la propaganda partidaria anterior a 1933 del sistema estatal de propaganda, censura y coordinación cultural desarrollado después de la toma del poder. Esta separación permite examinar con mayor precisión qué recursos fueron utilizados para competir electoralmente y cuáles pertenecen a la posterior institucionalización de la dictadura.…