Talking democracy : historical perspectives on rhetoric and democracy / edited by Benedetto Fontana, Cary J. Nederman, Gary Remer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fontana, Benedetto, editor.

Nederman, Cary J., editor.

Remer, Gary, 1957- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deliberative democracy.

Democracy--History.

Democracy.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p. )

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In their efforts to uncover the principles of a robust conception of democracy, theorists of deliberative democracy place a premium on the role of political expression - public speech and reasoned debate - as the key to democratic processes. They also frequently hark back to historical antecedents (as in the Habermasian invocation of the "public sphere" of eighteenth-century bourgeois society and the Arendtian valorization of the classical Athenian polis) in their quest to establish that deliberative procedures are more than "merely theoretical" and instead have a practical application.

But for all this emphasis on the discursive and historical dimensions of democracy, these theorists have generally neglected the rich resources available in the history of rhetorical theory and practice. It is the purpose of Talking Democracy to resurrect this history and show how attention to rhetoric can help lead to a better understanding of both the strengths and limitations of current theories of deliberative democracy."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : deliberative democracy and the rhetorical turn / Benedetto Fontana, Cary J. Nederman, and Gary Remer

Rhetoric and the roots of democratic politics / Benedetto Fontana

Democratic deliberation and the historian's trade : the case of Thucydides / Arlene W. Saxonhouse

Deliberation versus decision : platonism in contemporary democratic theory / Gary Shiffman

Rhetorical democracy / Russell Bentley

Cicero and the ethics of deliberative rhetoric / Gary Remer

Disarming, simple, and sweet : Augustine's republican rhetoric / John von Heyking

The road to heaven is paved with pious deceptions : medieval speech ethics and deliberative democracy / Cary J. Nederman and Tsae Lan Lee Dow

Deliberative democracy and the public sphere : answer or anachronism? / Thomas Murphy

Auditory democracy : separation of powers and the locations of listening / John Uhr

Reading J.S. Mill's The subjection of women as a text of deliberative rhetoric / Nadia Urbinati

Criteria of rationality for evaluating democratic public rhetoric / Douglas Walton.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271032894

0271032898

OCLC:

1119120324