Overview

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 Moller Hansen, Sine Norholm Just, Ildiko Kaposi, William Keith, Bart van Klink, Marie Lund Klujeff, Manfred Kraus, Oliver W. Lembcke, Berit von der Lippe, James McDonald, Niels Moller Nielsen, Tatiana Tatarchevskiy, Italo Testa, Georgia Warnke, Kristian Wedberg, and Stephen West.

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Author:   Christian Kock ,  Lisa Villadsen
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780271053882

ISBN 10:   0271053887
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   15 May 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction: Citizenship as a Rhetorical Practice Christian Kock and Lisa S. Villadsen Section I Tracing Rhetorical Citizenship as Concept and Practice 1 Deliberative Democracy: Mapping Out the Deliberative Turn in Democratic Theory Kasper Moller Hansen 2 The Making of Truth in Debate: The Case of (and a Case for) the Early Sophists Manfred Kraus 3 The Search for Real Democracy: Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation in France and the United States, 1870-1940 William Keith and Paula Cossart Section II Public Deliberation as Rhetorical Practice Part 1 Considering Norms of Communicative Behavior 4 The Respect Fallacy: Limits of Respect in Public Dialogue Italo Testa 5 Dialectical Citizenship? Some Thoughts on the Role of Pragmatics in the Analysis of Public Debate Niels Moller Nielsen 6 Provocative Style: The Gaarder Debate Example Marie Lund Klujeff 7 Virtual Deliberations: Talking Politics Online in Hungary Ildiko Kaposi Part 2 Critiques of Elite Discourse 8 Dis-playing Democracy: The Rhetoric of Duplicity Kristian Wedberg 9 Rhetoric of War, Rhetoric of Gender Berit von der Lippe 10 Speaking of Terror: Norms of Rhetorical Citizenship in Danish Public Discourse Lisa S. Villadsen 11 This May Be the Law, but Should It Be? Tony Blair's Rhetoric of Exception Bart van Klink and Oliver W. Lembcke Part 3 Rhetorical Citizenship Across Communicative Settings 12 I Agree, but . . . : Finding Alternatives to Controversial Projects Through Public Deliberation James McDonald 13 Deliberation as Behavior in Public Tatiana Tatarchevskiy 14 Homing in on the Arguments: The Rhetorical Construction of Subject Positions in Debates on the Danish Real Estate Market Sine Norholm Just and Jonas Gabrielsen 15 Danish Revue: Satire as Rhetorical Citizenship Jette Barnholdt Hansen Section III Toward Better Deliberative Practices 16 Presidential Primary Debate as a Genre of Journalistic Discourse: How Can We Put Debate into the Debates? John Adams and Stephen West 17 A Tool for Rhetorical Citizenship: Generalizing the Status System Christian Kock 18 Potential and Problems of Deliberative Debate: Interpretive Debates Revisited Georgia Warnke About the Contributors Index

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At the start of his presidential campaign in February 2007, Barack Obama issued a call for people to reclaim the meaning of citizenship. This timely volume of international collaboration, with its insights drawn from a range of disciplines, is a valuable contribution to such a recovery and the reflections involved. Carefully edited and introduced by Christian Kock and Lisa S. Villadsen, the book brings to life the 'rhetorical citizen' as an active deliberator fully engaged in public affairs. Its theoretical insights and practical cases, along with the gathering of perspectives from areas not often brought to a common focus in this way, recommend it to any serious student of deliberative democracy and to all who might appreciate the powerful role that constructive rhetoric can play in the building of informed societies. --Christopher Tindale, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, University of Windsor

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Christian Kock is Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication at the University of Copenhagen. Lisa S. Villadsen is Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Rhetoric in the Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication at the University of Copenhagen.

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