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Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy

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Description for Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy Paperback. Editor(s): Fontana, Benedetto; Nederman, Cary J.; Remer, Gary. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.

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 in the Habermasian invocation of the “public sphere” of eighteenth-century bourgeois society and the Arendtian valorization of the classical Athenian polis) in their quest to establish that deliberative procedures are more than “merely theoretical” and instead have a practical application. But for all this emphasis on the discursive and historical dimensions of democracy, these theorists have ... Read more

Contributors, besides the editors, are Russell Bentley, Tsae Lan Lee Dow, Tom Murphy, Arlene Saxonhouse, Gary Shiffman, John Uhr, Nadia Urbinati, John von Heyking, and Douglas Walton.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271024578
SKU
V9780271024578
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Benedetto Fontana (Ed.)
Benedetto Fontana is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Baruch College of the City University of New York. Cary J. Nederman is Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies at Texas A&M University. Gary Remer is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tulane University.

Reviews for Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy
“A fine scholarly volume, Talking Democracy is a salutary corrective to any conception of political theorizing as something of a straightforwardly progressive enterprise which has long ago surpassed the wisdom of the ancients, who remain only to be caricatured or pillaged. The editors accomplish this by assembling a diverse collection of essays which draw upon pre-modern political thought in order ... Read more

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