Rebecca Higgie
Biographic Data
| ID | 6551056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Higgie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Higgie |
| SIGNATURE | HIGGIE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Playful politicians and serious satirists
Recent scholarship has recognised that political satirists are important players in contemporary political discourse. Research on this phenomenon has been largely restricted to the work of US satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. This article examines the under-researched Australian context, arguing that the interplay between satirist and politician has contributed to a complex slippage between play and earnestness in contemporary Australian…
Kynical dogs and cynical masters
This article proposes that the philosophical techniques found in contemporary satires can be understood using a spectrum that ranges between the cynical and the kynical. Cynicism is the belief that there is no hope for change, that truth is dead, while kynicism – a non-nihilistic form of cynicism – maintains that truth does exist, and is worth saving from political and media manipulations. By exploring the evolution of kynicism, from its origins …
Kynical dogs and cynical masters
This article proposes that the philosophical techniques found in contemporary satires can be understood using a spectrum that ranges between the cynical and the kynical. Cynicism is the belief that there is no hope for change, that truth is dead, while kynicism – a non-nihilistic form of cynicism – maintains that truth does exist, and is worth saving from political and media manipulations. By exploring the evolution of kynicism, from its origins …
Playful politicians and serious satirists
Recent scholarship has recognised that political satirists are important players in contemporary political discourse. Research on this phenomenon has been largely restricted to the work of US satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. This article examines the under-researched Australian context, arguing that the interplay between satirist and politician has contributed to a complex slippage between play and earnestness in contemporary Australian…
Kynical dogs and cynical masters
This article proposes that the philosophical techniques found in contemporary satires can be understood using a spectrum that ranges between the cynical and the kynical. Cynicism is the belief that there is no hope for change, that truth is dead, while kynicism – a non-nihilistic form of cynicism – maintains that truth does exist, and is worth saving from political and media manipulations. By exploring the evolution of kynicism, from its origins …
Playful politicians and serious satirists
Recent scholarship has recognised that political satirists are important players in contemporary political discourse. Research on this phenomenon has been largely restricted to the work of US satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. This article examines the under-researched Australian context, arguing that the interplay between satirist and politician has contributed to a complex slippage between play and earnestness in contemporary Australian…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works)