Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation. Deliberative Acts : : Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights / / Arabella Lyon.

The twenty-first century is characterized by the global circulation of cultures, norms, representations, discourses, and human rights claims; the arising conflicts require innovative understandings of decision making. Deliberative Acts develops a new, cogent theory of performative deliberation. Rath...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015]
©2013
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ; 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: deliberation in the global era
  • 1 Defining deliberative space: rethinking persuasion, position, and identification
  • 2 Performative deliberation and the narratable who
  • 3 Narrating rights, creating agents: missing women in the U.S. media
  • 4 The beauty of Arendt’s lies: Menchú’s political strategy
  • 5 Voting like a girl: declarations, paradoxes of deliberation, and embodied citizens as a difference in kind
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index