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Chapter 3 explores the rhetoric of witnessing that contemporary Western officials regularly employ as an instrument of national and international statecraft. The idea that civic leaders may improve political affairs and enhance their political legitimacy by encouraging the public to bear witness to past injustice and tragedy is a now-commonplace feature of national as well as international politics. Chapter 3 demonstrates how politicians and political institutions have, in recent decades, adopted the rhetoric of witnessing in political address, particularly in order to demonstrate regret, engage in rites of apologia, or participate in somber commemoration. President George W. Bush’s remarks on transatlantic slavery during a 2003 state visit to Gorée Island, Senegal, includes a virtual compendium of tropes and idioms that political officials customarily employ on such occasions. To examine the details of his address is to examine essential aspects of the regretful appeals and rituals of political witnessing that officials now employ routinely in an effort to demonstrate both moral and political legitimacy.
Title: Regret
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Chapter 3 explores the rhetoric of witnessing that contemporary Western officials regularly employ as an instrument of national and international statecraft.
The idea that civic leaders may improve political affairs and enhance their political legitimacy by encouraging the public to bear witness to past injustice and tragedy is a now-commonplace feature of national as well as international politics.
Chapter 3 demonstrates how politicians and political institutions have, in recent decades, adopted the rhetoric of witnessing in political address, particularly in order to demonstrate regret, engage in rites of apologia, or participate in somber commemoration.
President George W.
Bush’s remarks on transatlantic slavery during a 2003 state visit to Gorée Island, Senegal, includes a virtual compendium of tropes and idioms that political officials customarily employ on such occasions.
To examine the details of his address is to examine essential aspects of the regretful appeals and rituals of political witnessing that officials now employ routinely in an effort to demonstrate both moral and political legitimacy.
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