TY - BOOK AU - Bentley,Russell AU - Dow,Tsae AU - Fontana,Benedetto AU - Heyking,John AU - Murphy,Thomas AU - Nederman,Cary AU - Nederman,Cary J. AU - Remer,Gary AU - Saxonhouse,Arlene AU - Shiffman,Gary AU - Uhr,John AU - Urbinati,Nadia AU - Walton,Douglas TI - Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy SN - 9780271032894 AV - JC421 .T36 2004eb U1 - 321.8 22 PY - 2004///] CY - University Park, PA : PB - Penn State University Press, KW - Democracy KW - History KW - Discours politique KW - Démocratie KW - Histoire KW - Rhetoric KW - Political aspects KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric KW - bisacsh KW - 0-271-02456-9 KW - Arlene Saxonhouse KW - Benedetto Fontanta KW - Cary J. Nederman KW - Douglas Walton KW - Gary Remer KW - John Uhr Nadia KW - Lee Dow KW - Tom Murphy KW - Tsae Lan KW - Urbinati John Von Heyking KW - gery Shiffman KW - political KW - science Russell Bentley N1 - Frontmatter --; contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Deliberative Democracy and the Rhetorical Turn --; Contributors --; 1 Rhetoric and the Roots of Democratic Politics --; 2 Democratic Deliberation and the Historian’s Trade: The Case of Thucydides --; 3 Deliberation versus Decision: Platonism in Contemporary Democratic Theory --; 4 Rhetorical Democracy --; 5 Cicero and the Ethics of Deliberative Rhetoric --; 6 Disarming, Simple, and Sweet: Augustine’s Republican Rhetoric --; 7 The Road to Heaven Is Paved with Pious Deceptions: Medieval Speech Ethics and Deliberative Democracy --; 8 Deliberative Democracy and the Public Sphere: Answer or Anachronism? --; 9 Auditory Democracy: Separation of Powers and the Locations of Listening --; 10 Reading J. S. Mill’s The Subjection of Women as a Text of Deliberative Rhetoric --; 11 Criteria of Rationality for Evaluating Democratic Public Rhetoric --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 generally neglected the rich resources available in the history of rhetorical theory and practice. It is the purpose of Talking Democracy to resurrect this history and show how attention to rhetoric can help lead to a better understanding of both the strengths and limitations of current theories of deliberative democracy. 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271032894?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271032894 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271032894/original ER -