Trained capacities : John Dewey, rhetoric, and democratic practice / edited by Brian Jackson and Gregory Clark ; afterword by Gerard A. Hauser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jackson, Brian.

Clark, Gregory.

Hauser, Gerard A.

Series:

Studies in rhetoric/communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Dewey, John.

Democracy--Philosophy.

Democracy.

Rhetoric--Philosophy.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection examining Dewey's influence on effective communication in a healthy democratic practice The essays in this collection, written by sixteen scholars in rhetoric and communications studies, demonstrate American philosopher John Dewey's wide-ranging influence on rhetoric in an intellectual tradition that addresses the national culture's fundamental conflicts between self and society, freedom and responsibility, and individual advancement and the common good. Editors Brian Jackson and Gregory Clark propose that this influence is at work both in theoretical foundations, such as science, pragmatism, and religion, and in Dewey's debates with other public intellectuals, such as Jane Addams, Walter Lippmann, James Baldwin, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Jackson and Clark seek to establish Dewey as an essential source for those engaged in teaching others how to compose timely, appropriate, useful, and eloquent responses to the diverse and often-contentious rhetorical situations that develop in a democratic culture. They contend that there is more at stake than instruction in traditional modes of public discourse because democratic culture encompasses a variety of situations, private or public, civic or professional, where people must cooperate in the work of advancing a common project. What prepares people to intervene constructively in such situations is instruction in those rhetorical practices of democratic interaction that is implicit throughout Dewey's work. Dewey's writing provides a rich framework on which a distinctly American tradition of a democratic rhetorical practice can be built-a tradition that combines the most useful concepts of classical rhetoric with those of modern progressive civic engagement. Jackson and Clark believe Dewey's practice takes rhetoric beyond the traditional emphasis on political democracy to provide connections to rich veins of American thought such as individualism, liberalism, progressive education, collectivism, pragmatism, and postindustrial science and communication. They frame Dewey's voluminous work as constituting a modern expression of continuing education for the "trained capacities" required to participate in democratic culture. For Dewey human potential is best realized in the free flow of artful communication among the individuals who together constitute society. The book concludes with an afterword by Gerard A. Hauser, College Professor of Distinction in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Contents:

Dewey and democratic practice: science, pragmatism, religion. Dewey on science, deliberation, and the sociology of rhetoric / William Keith and Robert Danisch

John Dewey, Kenneth Burke, and the role of orientation in rhetoric / Scott R. Stroud

Minister of democracy: John Dewey, religious rhetoric, and the great community / Paul Stob

Dewey and his interlocutors: Thomas Jefferson, Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter Lippmann, James Baldwin. Dewey on Jefferson: reiterating democratic faith in times of war / Jeremy Engels

John Dewey and Jane Addams debate war / Louise W. Knight

John Dewey, W. E. B. Du Bois, and a rhetoric of education / Keith Gilyard

Walter Lippmann, the indispensable opposition / Jean Goodwin

"All safety is an illusion": John Dewey, James Baldwin, and the democratic practice of public critique / Walton Muyumba

Dewey as teacher of rhetoric. Rhetoric and Dewey's experimental pedagogy / Nathan Crick

The art of the inartistic, in publics digital or otherwise / Brian Jackson, Meridith Reed, and Jeff Swift

Dewey's progressive pedagogy for rhetorical instruction: teaching argument in a nonfoundational framework / Donald C. Jones

Afterword: the possibilities for Dewey amid the angst of paradigm change / Gerard A. Hauser.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781611173192

1611173191

OCLC:

873808300