HOPING BECOMES A PRESIDENT. RHETORIC AND POLITICAL VISION IN BARACK H. OBAMA
HOPING BECOMES A PRESIDENT. RHETORIC AND POLITICAL VISION IN BARACK H. OBAMA
Author(s): Gabriel C. GherasimSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Barack Obama; presidential elections; rethoric; discourse theory.
Summary/Abstract: The thesis of the present paper is that of putting forward an interpretation of the presence of the rhetoric component and of hghlighting the theoretical values on politics that Barack Obama’s political activity, as well as his speeches and autobiographic work, reveal. The subjacent implication of this approach is that there is an indissoluble unity among these three elements with a public chaacter and that, at the same time, they project a unitary vision on politics. The paper is not an analysis either of the political activity or the speeches that Obama has made, but it seeks to highlight the overtones that are characteristic to his particular rhetoric and to single out some explicit axilogical presuppositions of his political vision. Our assumption is that, once this vision on politics has been clarified, one can then distinguish the explicit motivations of his past, current and future political activity.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Studia Europaea
- Issue Year: 54/2009
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 79-92
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English