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Murray Edelman


Born
in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, The United States
November 05, 1919

Died
January 26, 2001


Edelman received a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1941. He then earned a master’s degree in history from the University of Chicago in 1942 and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1948. He served on the faculty of the University of Illinois from 1948 to 1966. In 1966 Edelman joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and he retired from there in 1990.

Edelman’s innovative and classic book The Symbolic Uses of Politics (1964) is the seminal work on symbolic politics, and it continues to exert a widespread influence on scholarly research. In it, Edelman explored the use of myths, rites, and other symbolic forms of commun
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Constructing the Political ...

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The Symbolic Uses of Politics

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From Art to Politics: How A...

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The Politics of Misinformation

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Political language: Words t...

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Politics As Symbolic Action...

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Constructing the Political ...

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Symbols and Political Quies...

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Pièces et règles du jeu pol...

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Politik als Ritual: Die sym...

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“That attention to a conspicuous problem may reduce interest in a more troubling one is sometimes consciously recognized but more often subconsciously sensed.”
Murray Edelman, Constructing the Political Spectacle