Talking Democracy : : Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy / / ed. by Benedetto Fontana, Gary Remer, Cary J. Nederman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Bentley, Russell,; Dow, Tsae,; Fontana, Benedetto,; Heyking, John,; Murphy, Thomas,; Nederman, Cary,; Remer, Gary,; Saxonhouse, Arlene,; Shiffman, Gary,; Uhr, John,; Urbinati, Nadia,; Walton, Douglas,
• HerausgeberIn: Fontana, Benedetto,; Nederman, Cary J.,; Remer, Gary,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

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 i...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Deliberative Democracy and the Rhetorical Turn
• Contributors
• 1 Rhetoric and the Roots of Democratic Politics
• 2 Democratic Deliberation and the Historian’s Trade: The Case of Thucydides
• 3 Deliberation versus Decision: Platonism in Contemporary Democratic Theory
• 4 Rhetorical Democracy
• 5 Cicero and the Ethics of Deliberative Rhetoric
• 6 Disarming, Simple, and Sweet: Augustine’s Republican Rhetoric
• 7 The Road to Heaven Is Paved with Pious Deceptions: Medieval Speech Ethics and Deliberative Democracy
• 8 Deliberative Democracy and the Public Sphere: Answer or Anachronism?
• 9 Auditory Democracy: Separation of Powers and the Locations of Listening
• 10 Reading J. S. Mill’s The Subjection of Women as a Text of Deliberative Rhetoric
• 11 Criteria of Rationality for Evaluating Democratic Public Rhetoric
• Contributors
• Index