Doomsday Speculation As a Strategy of Persuasion: A Study of Apocalypticism As Rhetoric (STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE RELIGION) - Hardcover

Borchardt, Frank L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0889465061 ISBN 13: 9780889465060

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr, 1990

Synopsis

A study examining Doomsday predictions as a rhetorical ploy, this text argues that assertions regarding the imminent "End of the (or a) World" represent a means of coercion to get others (or the world) to do something or stop doing something. The work focuses on the rhetorical dimension of the doom-sayers' predictions and the special logic of the doomsayer. The author observes how the seemingly outward-directed argument reverts to the self, concluding that predicting doom appears to be objective and to apply to the outside world, but is ultimately subjective, self-serving, and self-centered.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0889465061
• ISBN 13: 9780889465060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204