Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation

Published by Penn State University Press 2012

Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation

Edited by: Christian Kock and Lisa Villadsen

Volume 3 in the series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271060293

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About this book

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

Author / Editor information

Kock Christian :

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

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.

Reviews

“Anyone who has been reading in rhetoric and democracy and has an interest in ways of pushing the deliberative democracy model forward will agree that this volume enters that conversation, addresses key issues, and offers fresh insights and approaches that warrant further work of this kind.”
—Robert L. Ivie, Indiana University

“Ranging widely and effectively in time, space, cases, and theory, Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation shows how and why rhetoric must be central to the practice of politics and citizenship in contemporary democracies. An impressive and strikingly original set of contributions sheds new light on the possibilities for public deliberation.”
—John Dryzek, Australian National University

“This book brings new arguments into an already lively scholarly conversation about public deliberation. The editors and authors bring to the forefront important rhetorical perspectives that previous work on deliberation has overlooked.”
—John Gastil, Pennsylvania State University

“Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation is a comprehensive and provocative assessment of the rhetorical nature of citizenship. Drawing together an impressive group of scholars from various disciplines and countries, Christian Kock and Lisa Villadsen have crafted a volume that is essential reading for scholars interested in the conversations surrounding agency, citizenship, and the prospects for a democratic society.”
—Kendall R. Phillips, Syracuse University

“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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction: citizenship as a rhetorical practice Christian Kock and Lisa S. Villadsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section I: Tracing rhetorical citizenship as concept and practice
1 Deliberative Democracy: Mapping Out the Deliberative Turn in Democratic Theory Kasper Møller Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2 The Making of Truth in Debate: The Case of (and a Case for) the Early Sophists Manfred Kraus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
3 The Search for “Real” Democracy: Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation in France and the United States, 1870–1940 William Keith and Paula Cossart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Section II: Public deliberation as rhetorical practice
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Part 1 Considering Norms of Communicative Behavior
4 The Respect Fallacy: Limits of Respect in Public Dialogue Italo Testa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
5 Dialectical Citizenship? Some Thoughts on the Role of Pragmatics in the Analysis of Public Debate Niels Møller Nielsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
6 Provocative Style: The Gaarder Debate Example Marie Lund Klujeff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
7 Virtual Deliberations: Talking Politics Online in Hungary Ildikó Kaposi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Part 2 Critiques of “Elite” Discourse
8 Dis-playing Democracy: The Rhetoric of Duplicity Kristian Wedberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
9 Rhetoric of War, Rhetoric of Gender Berit von der Lippe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
10 Speaking of Terror: Norms of Rhetorical Citizenship in Danish Public Discourse Lisa S Villadsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
11 “This May Be the Law, but Should It Be?”: Tony Blair’s Rhetoric of Exception Bart van Klink and Oliver W. Lembcke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Part 3 Rhetorical Citizenship Across Communicative Settings
12 I Agree, but . . . : Finding Alternatives to Controversial Projects Through Public Deliberation James McDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
13 Deliberation as Behavior in Public Tatiana Tatarchevskiy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
14 Homing in on the Arguments: The Rhetorical Construction of Subject Positions in Debates on the Danish Real Estate Market Sine Nørholm Just and Jonas Gabrielsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
15 Danish Revue: Satire as Rhetorical Citizenship Jette Barnholdt Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
17 A Tool for Rhetorical Citizenship: Generalizing the Status System Christian Kock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
18 Interpretive Debates Revisited Georgia Warnke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
About the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321