{"title":"Jason Stanley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJason Stanley\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the intersections of language, politics, and society with sharp analytical insight. His works delve into how language shapes power structures, the mechanics of propaganda, and the threats posed by authoritarianism in contemporary democracies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e as well as \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy \u0026amp; Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e will find Stanley’s books thought-provoking and essential for understanding how ideas influence political realities and historical memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"how-fascism-works-by-jason-stanley-9780525511854","title":"How Fascism Works","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFascist politics is running rampant in America and spreading around the world. A Yale philosopher identifies its ten pillars and charts its horrifying rise and deep history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"No single book is as relevant to the present moment.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Claudia Rankine, author of \u003cem\u003eCitizen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"One of the defining books of the decade.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - Elizabeth Hinton, author of \u003cem\u003eFrom the War on Poverty to the War on Crime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. With a new preface.\u003c\/strong\u003e Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their horrifying rise and deep history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the child of refugees of World War II Europe and a renowned philosopher and scholar of propaganda, Jason Stanley has a deep understanding of how democratic societies can be vulnerable to fascism. Nations don't have to be fascist to suffer from fascist politics. In fact, fascism's roots have been present in the United States for more than a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlarmed by the pervasive rise of fascist tactics both at home and around the globe, Stanley focuses here on the structures that unite them, laying out and analysing the ten pillars of fascist politics—the language and beliefs that separate people into an \"us\" and a \"them.\" He knits together reflections on history, philosophy, sociology, and critical race theory with stories from contemporary Hungary, Poland, India, Myanmar, and the United States, among other nations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe makes clear the immense danger of underestimating the cumulative power of these tactics, which include exploiting a mythic version of a nation's past; propaganda that twists the language of democratic ideals against themselves; anti-intellectualism directed against universities and experts; law and order politics predicated on the assumption that members of minority groups are criminals; and fierce attacks on labour groups and welfare. These mechanisms all build on one another, creating and reinforcing divisions and shaping a society vulnerable to the appeals of authoritarian leadership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy uncovering disturbing patterns that are as prevalent today as ever, Stanley reveals that the stuff of politics—charged by rhetoric and myth—can quickly become policy and reality. Only by recognising fascist politics, he argues, may we resist its most harmful effects and return to democratic ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, \u003cem\u003eHow Fascism Works\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.\"\u003c\/em\u003e - William Jelani Cobb, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Substance of Hope\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ingram Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45907286393068,"sku":"9780525511854","price":55.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780525511854.jpg?v=1731708857"},{"product_id":"how-propaganda-works-by-jason-stanley-9780691173429","title":"How Propaganda Works","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies of the mid-twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHow Propaganda Works\u003c\/em\u003e, Jason Stanley demonstrates that more attention needs to be paid. He examines how propaganda operates subtly, how it undermines democracy—particularly the ideals of democratic deliberation and equality—and how it has damaged democracies of the past. Focusing on the shortcomings of liberal democratic states, Stanley provides a historically grounded introduction to democratic political theory as a window into the misuse of democratic vocabulary for propaganda's selfish purposes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe lays out historical examples, such as the restructuring of the US public school system at the turn of the twentieth century, to explore how the language of democracy is sometimes used to mask an undemocratic reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing from a range of sources, including feminist theory, critical race theory, epistemology, formal semantics, educational theory, and social and cognitive psychology, he explains how the manipulative and hypocritical declaration of flawed beliefs and ideologies arises from and perpetuates inequalities in society, such as the racial injustices that commonly occur in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow Propaganda Works\u003c\/em\u003e shows that an understanding of propaganda and its mechanisms is essential for the preservation and protection of liberal democracies everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849289683180,"sku":"9780691173429","price":57.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1721433482434.jpg?v=1759033857"},{"product_id":"the-politics-of-language-by-david-beaver-9780691181981","title":"The Politics of Language","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Language\u003c\/i\u003e, David Beaver and Jason Stanley present a radical new approach to the theory of meaning, offering an account of communication in which political and social identity, affect, and shared practices play as important a role as information. This new view of language, they argue, has dramatic consequences for free speech, democracy, and a range of other areas in which speech plays a central role.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a wealth of disciplines, \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Language\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the function of speech—whether in dialogue, larger group interactions, or mass communication—is to attune people to something, be it a shared reality, emotion, or identity. Reconceptualising the central ideas of pragmatics and semantics, Beaver and Stanley apply their account to a range of phenomena that defy standard frameworks in linguistics and philosophy of language—from dog whistles and covert persuasion to echo chambers and genocidal speech. 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