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Defending Alignment

Author(s) -

Stephan Schwarz

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

sage open

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357

H-Index - 32

ISSN - 2158-2440

DOI - 10.1177/2158244016643565

Subject(s) - rhetoric , cognitive dissonance , german , rhetorical question , resistance (ecology) , political science , power (physics) , sociology , state (computer science) , public relations , law , positive economics , law and economics , social psychology , psychology , economics , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , ecology , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , biology

After the rise to power of the German National Socialist Party(January 30, 1933), German academia soon realized that a requirement for “muddlingthrough” was to avoid the stigma of being regarded as “politically unreliable,” thus toappear aligned and loyal to the state policies. The focus is here on the physicscommunity. A rhetoric of alignment developed with the objective to justify collaborationas a rational and morally justified strategy. In the early post-war years, the rhetoricwas reoriented to deny any involvement (other than as resistance) systematically using aconceptual framework foreshadowing the principles of Cognitive Dissonance Reduction(CDR) and the related framework of Rhetorical (Informal) Fallacies. This affinity ishere studied with reference to statements from the period

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