Discourse, debate, and democracy : readings from controversia : an international journal of debate and democratic renewal / edited by David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, David Cratis, 1955-

Young, Marilyn J., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debates and debating.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : International Debate Education Association, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Discourse, Debate and Democracy is an anthology of articles, taken from Controversia (the academic journal of the International Debate Education Association), that speak to the central issues of the roles of discourse and debate in democracies. The volume is divided into two parts. Part One looks at the theoretical and pedagogical relationships among argumentation, debate, and democracy. Part Two offers case studies of public argument in "(possibly) renewing" democracies as well as "(possibly) emerging" democracies; the topics of the case studies include the U.S. war in Iraq, the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, democratization trends and possibilities in various parts of the Arab world, and the Russian experience with democratization and reaction in the 1990s.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; I. From "Introducing Controversia"; II. Article Selections for Discourse Debate and Democracy; PART ONE: Argumentation, Debate, and Democracy; The Argumentation Theorist in Deliberative Democracy; Abstract; Introduction; I: The Idea of Deliberative Democracy; II: The Influence of the Argumentation Theorist as Educator: Achieving Transfer; III: The Status of the Argumentation Theorist: Expert Authority or Vicarious Participant?; Democracy and Argumentation ; Abstract; Argumentation in the Political Context of Democracy; Developments Towards Democracy

The Eastern European SyllogismDemocracy as "Organised Uncertainty"; The Modern Conception of Democracy; The Classical Conception of Democracy; Democracy as an Organisational System; Participatory Democracy and Critical Discussion; Higher Order Conditions for Critical Discussion; The Role of Argumentation in Democratic Change; The Rhetorical Phronimos: Political Wisdom in Postmodernity; Abstract; "Rational" Citizens and Their Political Realms; Aristotle's Theory of Knowledge; Phronesis and the Role of Rhetoric and Dialectic; Practical Wisdom and Its Areas of Application

Dialogue versus DeconstructionCritical Political Theory and the Rhetorical Phronimos; Identity Construction and Political Wisdom; Power and Force in Argumentation: A Dialogic Response; Abstract; PART I: Power and Force in Argumentation; Navigating Dangerous Deliberative Waters: Shallow Argument Pools, Group Polarization and Public Debate Pedagogy in Southeast Europe*; Abstract; 'Balkanization' and Group Polarization; Public Debate and Group Depolarization; Closed Fist or Open Palm?; PART TWO: Public Argument, Public Policy, and Democratization

Manifest Destiny on a Global Scale: The U. S. War on TerrorismAbstract; Revoking Individual Identity; Revoking National Identity; Revoking Religious Identity; The Doctrine of Global Manifest Destiny; NOTES; Hypocrisy and Hatred; Abstract; Between the Arab Street and the Arab Basement: Dimensions of Civility &Civil Society in American Public Diplomacy; Abstract; Islamic Publics as the Object of American Foreign Policy; Reclaiming Civility from within Civil Society; Engaging Islamic Publics: American Public Diplomacy; Miscommunication-The Distortion of Civility

Moderates and Messengers: Separating Islamic publicsConclusions; NOTES; WORKS CITED; We'll Guarantee Freedom When We Can Afford It: The Free Market, the Russian Constitution, and the Rhetoric of Boris Yeltsin; II. Viable Constitutionalism; III. The Road to the Russian Constitution; III. Yeltsin's "Democratic Coup"; IV. Economics and the Russian Constitution; WORKS CITED; Vladimir Zhirinovsky: The Clown Prince of Russia; Abstract; The Rise of the LDPR; Russia at the Threshold; Bakhtin's Carnival and the Clown Prince of Russia; Free and Familiar Contact; The Bodily Element

The Clown and the Right to be "Other" in this World

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-61770-036-3

OCLC:

923146296