Rhetorics of judge-penitence : how moral superiority is publicly constructed through admissions of past wrongdoing

Given the increasing number of public admissions of wrongdoing by official representatives of states, other institutions and individuals, as well as the subsequent scholarly attention directed to this phenomenon, this thesis investigates one potential misuse of such practices. Here, I take Albert Ca...

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Main Author: Forchtner, Bernhard
Published: Lancaster University 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.652025