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Paperback / softback. New. Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen's groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument to those who insist that politics is primarily about material interests and the groups advocating for them. During the thirty-year rule of President Hafiz al-Asad's regime, his image was everywhere. In newspapers, on television, and during orchestrated spectacles. Asad was praised as the "father," the "gallant knight," even the country's "premier pharmacist." Yet most Syrians, including those who create the official rhetoric, did not believe its claims. Why would a regime spend scarce resources on a personality cult whose content is patently spurious? Wedeen shows how such flagrantly fictitious claims were able to produce a politics of public dissimulation in which citizens acted as if they revered the leader. By inundating daily life with tired symbolism, the…
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- Title Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria
- Author Lisa Wedeen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 2015-09-09
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226333373 / 022633337X
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Library of Congress subjects Assad, Hafez, Syria - Politics and government - 1971-2000
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015020384
- Dewey Decimal Code 320.956
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