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Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice enacts the expansive yet humble pragmatic method that Dewey advocated over one hundred years ago. These hopeful, rigorous essays put Dewey into conversation with his contemporaries and with his legacy, to remind teachers and scholars that, as Dewey said, experience . . . has the last word in all human inquiries. Katharine Ronald, professor of English and director of the Howe Writing Center, Miami University Trained Capacities could not be more timely. The excellent introduction and wide-ranging essays make a major contribution to the renewed interest in John Dewey s rhetorical pragmatism. But perhaps even more importantly this volume as a whole proposes a Dewey-inspired argument aimed at healing today s rhetorically-broken sphere of democratic deliberation. Steven Mailloux, President s Professor of Rhetoric, Loyola Marymount University

Trained Capacities could not be more timely. The excellent introduction and wide-ranging essays make a major contribution to the renewed interest in John Dewey's rhetorical pragmatism. But perhaps even more importantly this volume as a whole proposes a Dewey-inspired argument aimed at healing today's rhetorically-broken sphere of democratic deliberation. -- Steven Mailloux, President's Professor of Rhetoric, Loyola Marymount University

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Brian Jackson is an associate professor of English and university writing coordinator at Brigham Young University, USA. He has published articles in Rhetoric Review, Composition Studies, College Composition and Communication, and other publications. Gregory Clark is professor of English and associate dean of the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University, USA. He is the author of Rhetorical Landscapes in America: Variations on a Theme from Kenneth Burke (University of South Carolina Press).

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