Abstract This article examines Nietzsche's use of the rhetorics degeneration (Entartung) and “jewification” (Verjüdung), arguing that he often, though not always, uses them in unconventional ways to undermine his audience's comfortable assumptions about their values identity. In doing so, challenges idea health as isolation alleged infectious elements promotes ideal a “great health” predicated ...

Sudeton?mecký Landsmanšaft nebo podpora migrace? N?mecko jako zdroj ohrožení v rétorice Miloše Zemana (Sudeten German Landsmanshaft or the Support of Immigration? Germany as a Source Threat in Rhetorics Miloš Zeman) Journal Politické vedy has been released since 1998. The aim academically reviewed journal is to publish original articles Slovak and foreign authors, concerning different fields so...

The article describes extralingual factors, functionally-communicative features, stylistic means and ways of their translation in the historic keynote speech Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier “Strengthening everything that connects us”, delivered by him on October 28, 2022. Information policy concerns all public spheres. It preconditions functioning social system. Change ideas makes pro...

According to what has become a standard history of quantum mechanics, von Neumann in 1932 succeeded in convincing the physics community that he had proved that hidden variables were impossible as a matter of principle. Subsequently, leading proponents of the Copenhagen interpretation emphatically confirmed that von Neumann’s proof showed the completeness of quantum mechanics. Then, the story co...

Affordances, in the context of comics, connote to the general attributes of the medium such as temporality, spatiality, gestures, tone/handwriting and economy. Although comics evinces a dynamic relationship among these elements, it is possible to delineate functional and rhetorical role of these affordances on a conceptual and technical level. Taking these cues, the paper after briefly reviewin...

We argue, reason, cajole, and persuade — we deploy rhetoric — because we are social animals endowed with a symbolic mode of thought and communication who seek to shape our social environment, to compete, and to cooperate. As rhetoricians, philosophers, and semiologists have regularly noticed, some patterns of argumentation and cajolery are more successful than others. These patterns of usage — ...

ABSTRACT: It is shown that the "new economy" was propagated as an economic revolution. The paper explores the processes through which "E-Business" was conceived as an economic revolution rather than yet another technological innovation. Drawing on research on popular management concepts, it is suggested that proponents of "E-Business" were partly successful because they effectively used mechani...

Almost two decades into the Safe Motherhood Initiative, maternal mortality ratios of 500+ per 100 000 live births still being the rule rather than the exception in sub-Saharan Africa are no reason to celebrate (AbouZahr & Wardlaw 2003). Lukewarm political commitment, inadequate resource prioritization, competition between international agencies, major technical difficulties to accurately measur...