The rhetorical surface of democracy : how deliberative ideals undermine democratic politics / / Scott Welsh.

"The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics, by Scott Welsh, disputes the idea that democracy has anything to do with public deliberation in pursuit of collective judgment. Welsh argues, rather, that the impossibility of any kind of public judgmen...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:x, 183 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction. The Cure for What Ails You
  • Chapter 1. Taking Politics out of Rhetoric
  • Chapter 2. Coming to Terms with Rhetoric
  • Chapter 3. Democratic Ends
  • Chapter 4. Truth Against Judgment
  • Chapter 5. Between Rhetorical Reflection and Political Agency
  • Conclusion. Democracy at the Edge of the Abyss.