Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation. Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation / / ed. by Lisa Villadsen, Christian Kock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, John,; Barnholdt Hansen, Jette,; Cossart, Paula,; Gabrielsen, Jonas,; Kaposi, Ildikó,; Keith, William,; Klink, Bart van,; Kock, Christian,; Kraus, Manfred,; Lembcke, Oliver W.,; Lippe, Berit von der,; Lund Klujeff, Marie,; McDonald, James,; Møller Hansen, Kasper,; Møller Nielsen, Niels,; Nørholm Just, Sine,; Tatarchevskiy, Tatiana,; Testa, Italo,; Villadsen, Lisa S,; Villadsen, Lisa S.,; Warnke, Georgia,; Wedberg, Kristian,; West, Stephen,
• HerausgeberIn: Kock, Christian,; Villadsen, Lisa,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 1 illustration

Citizenship has long been a central topic among educators, philosophers, and political theorists. Using the phrase “rhetorical citizenship” as a unifying perspective, Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation aims to develop an understanding of citizenship as a discursive phenomenon, arguing that discourse is not prefatory to real action but in many ways constitutive of civic engagement. To accomplish this, the book brings together, in a cross-disciplinary effort, contributions by scholars in fields that rarely intersect. For the most part, discussions of citizenship have focused on aspects that are central to the “liberal” tradition of social thought—that is, questions of the freedoms and rights of citizens and groups. This collection gives voice to a “republican” conception of citizenship. Seeing participation and debate as central to being a citizen, this tradition looks back to the Greek city-states and republican Rome. Citizenship, in this sense of the word, is rhetorical citizenship. Rhetoric is thus at the core of being a citizen. Aside from the editors, the contributors are John Adams, Paula Cossart, Jonas Gabrielsen, Jette Barnholdt Hansen, Kasper Møller Hansen, Sine Nørholm Just, Ildikó Kaposi, William Keith, Bart van Klink, Marie Lund Klujeff, Manfred Kraus, Oliver W. Lembcke, Berit von der Lippe, James McDonald, Niels Møller Nielsen, Tatiana Tatarchevskiy, Italo Testa, Georgia Warnke, Kristian Wedberg, and Stephen West.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: citizenship as a rhetorical practice -- Section I: Tracing rhetorical citizenship as concept and practice -- 1 Deliberative Democracy: Mapping Out the Deliberative Turn in Democratic Theory -- 2 The Making of Truth in Debate: The Case of (and a Case for) the Early Sophists -- 3 The Search for “Real” Democracy: Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation in France and the United States, 1870–1940 -- Section II: Public deliberation as rhetorical practice -- Introduction -- Part 1 Considering Norms of Communicative Behavior -- 4 The Respect Fallacy: Limits of Respect in Public Dialogue -- 5 Dialectical Citizenship? Some Thoughts on the Role of Pragmatics in the Analysis of Public Debate -- 6 Provocative Style: The Gaarder Debate Example -- 7 Virtual Deliberations: Talking Politics Online in Hungary -- Part 2 Critiques of “Elite” Discourse -- 8 Dis-playing Democracy: The Rhetoric of Duplicity -- 9 Rhetoric of War, Rhetoric of Gender -- 10 Speaking of Terror: Norms of Rhetorical Citizenship in Danish Public Discourse -- 11 “This May Be the Law, but Should It Be?”: Tony Blair’s Rhetoric of Exception -- Part 3 Rhetorical Citizenship Across Communicative Settings -- 12 I Agree, but . . . : Finding Alternatives to Controversial Projects Through Public Deliberation -- 13 Deliberation as Behavior in Public -- 14 Homing in on the Arguments: The Rhetorical Construction of Subject Positions in Debates on the Danish Real Estate Market -- 15 Danish Revue: Satire as Rhetorical Citizenship -- Section III: Toward better deliberative practices -- 16 Presidential Primary Debate as a Genre of Journalistic Discourse: How Can We Put Debate into the Debates? -- 17 A Tool for Rhetorical Citizenship: Generalizing the Status System -- 18 Interpretive Debates Revisited -- About the Contributors -- Index