With Right Words. Civil Self-Defense Manual
Words are never neutral. Knowing how to distinguish those that mislead from those that enlighten means defending the common space of truth and democracy.
“Giving things the right name can be a revolutionary act.”
Words can clarify or confuse, build shared realities or generate toxic illusions. Therefore, addressing language and its quality is not a luxury for intellectuals or a matter for academics. It is a crucial duty of public ethics. In this book, Gianrico Carofiglio guides us through the workshop of political and civil communication, showing how slogans, metaphors, and linguistic frames can become tools of manipulation or, conversely, of liberation. Starting with concrete examples—from Trump's rallies to hate speech, from propaganda techniques to obscure legal jargon—Carofiglio teaches us to recognize the traps of language and defuse them with clarity, rigor, and imagination. This new, updated and expanded edition is a veritable manual of civil self-defense: an invitation to exercise critical thinking, to choose the right words, to avoid falling under the spell of manipulated language. Because the quality of public discourse is the quality of our democracy.
Publication date: 07.10.2025
Publisher: Feltrinelli
Country: Italy
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