Discourse, debate, and democracy [[electronic resource] ] : readings from controversia : an international journal of debate and democratic renewal / / edited by David Cratis Williams, Marilyn J. Young

• Pubblicazione: New York, : International Debate Education Association, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Disciplina: 808.53
• Soggetto topico: Debates and debating; Democracy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: WilliamsDavid Cratis <1955-> YoungMarilyn J. <1942->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; I. From "Introducing Controversia"; II. Article Selections for Discourse Debate and Democracy; PART ONE: Argumentation, Debate, and Democracy; The Argumentation Theorist in Deliberative Democracy; Abstract; Introduction; I: The Idea of Deliberative Democracy; II: The Influence of the Argumentation Theorist as Educator: Achieving Transfer; III: The Status of the Argumentation Theorist: Expert Authority or Vicarious Participant?; Democracy and Argumentation ; Abstract; Argumentation in the Political Context of Democracy; Developments Towards Democracy ; The Eastern European SyllogismDemocracy as "Organised Uncertainty"; The Modern Conception of Democracy; The Classical Conception of Democracy; Democracy as an Organisational System; Participatory Democracy and Critical Discussion; Higher Order Conditions for Critical Discussion; The Role of Argumentation in Democratic Change; The Rhetorical Phronimos: Political Wisdom in Postmodernity; Abstract; "Rational" Citizens and Their Political Realms; Aristotle's Theory of Knowledge; Phronesis and the Role of Rhetoric and Dialectic; Practical Wisdom and Its Areas of Application ; Dialogue versus DeconstructionCritical Political Theory and the Rhetorical Phronimos; Identity Construction and Political Wisdom; Power and Force in Argumentation: A Dialogic Response; Abstract; PART I: Power and Force in Argumentation; Navigating Dangerous Deliberative Waters: Shallow Argument Pools, Group Polarization and Public Debate Pedagogy in Southeast Europe*; Abstract; 'Balkanization' and Group Polarization; Public Debate and Group Depolarization; Closed Fist or Open Palm?; PART TWO: Public Argument, Public Policy, and Democratization ; Manifest Destiny on a Global Scale: The U. S. War on TerrorismAbstract; Revoking Individual Identity; Revoking National Identity; Revoking Religious Identity; The Doctrine of Global Manifest Destiny; NOTES; Hypocrisy and Hatred; Abstract; Between the Arab Street and the Arab Basement: Dimensions of Civility &Civil Society in American Public Diplomacy; Abstract; Islamic Publics as the Object of American Foreign Policy; Reclaiming Civility from within Civil Society; Engaging Islamic Publics: American Public Diplomacy; Miscommunication-The Distortion of Civility ; Moderates and Messengers: Separating Islamic publicsConclusions; NOTES; WORKS CITED; We'll Guarantee Freedom When We Can Afford It: The Free Market, the Russian Constitution, and the Rhetoric of Boris Yeltsin; II. Viable Constitutionalism; III. The Road to the Russian Constitution; III. Yeltsin's "Democratic Coup"; IV. Economics and the Russian Constitution; WORKS CITED; Vladimir Zhirinovsky: The Clown Prince of Russia; Abstract; The Rise of the LDPR; Russia at the Threshold; Bakhtin's Carnival and the Clown Prince of Russia; Free and Familiar Contact; The Bodily Element ; The Clown and the Right to be "Other" in this World
• Titolo autorizzato: Discourse, debate, and democracy
• ISBN: 1-61770-036-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457153103321
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