Political myth and the need for significance : finding ontological security during times of terror
This thesis offers a novel theoretical framework for analysing how political and media elites invoke political myths following terror attacks. It does not define political myths as necessarily false claim or untrue stories, but instead draws on the existentialist approaches of Hans Blumenberg and Ch...
Main Author: | Kirke, Alexander Tom Sebastian |
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
2017
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.728341 |
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