Deliberation, dismissal, and democracy / David Schraub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schraub, David, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Psychological aspects.

Democracy.

Democracy--Social aspects.

Debates and debating.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

In civil litigation, dismissal offers the opportunity, early in a controversy, to preemptively dispose of a claim that does not present a legally judiciable case. Everyday talk, of course, is not bound by such procedural rules. Yet in conversation we often engage in a form of discursive dismissal: when faced with discomforting claims, our frequent instinct is not to engage in reasoned deliberation over them, but to brush them aside without considering their merits. How does dismissal fit within a broader ecosystem of deliberation? What is deliberative dismissal? When (if ever) is it justified? In this book, David Schraub analyses our tendency toward dismissal and the problems that flow from it. Schraub focuses on dismissal as a social, rather than legal, phenomenon.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 26, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-781642-8

OCLC:

1534425391