Rhetorical Democracy : Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement

by Hauser, Gerard; Grim, Amy

• ISBN13: 9781410610713
• ISBN10: 1410610713
• Copyright: 2004-07-16
• Publisher: LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, INC.

Summary

This volume represents current theory and research in rhetoric, across disciplines, and is of interest to scholars and students in rhetoric studies in speech communication, English, and related disciplines.

Table of Contents

Preface

Rhetorical Democracy and Civic Engagement

Plenary Papers

Citizen Voices in Cyberpolitical Culture

Identification and Resistance: Women's Civic Discourse Across the Color Line

Plato's Shibboleth Delineations; or, the Complete Idiot's Guide to Rhetoric

The Temple Issues Forum: Innovations in Pedagogy for Civic Engagement

President's Panel: The Rhetoric of 9/11 and Its Aftermath

Introduction to the President's Panel

Terrorist Rhetorics, Rhetorics of Democracies and Worlds of Meaning

The Triumph of Consolatory Ritual Over Deliberation Since 9/11

Citizen Rhetorics After 9/11: Back to Bidness as Usual

The Rehabilitation of Propaganda: Post-9/11 Media Coverage in the United States

Remarks for 9/11 Panel

Public Culture and Public Stupidity Post-9/11

Love and Theft After 9/11: Magnification in the Rhetorical Aftermath

Selected Papers

Populist Poetry or Rantum-Scantum? The Civil Disobedients of Poetry Slams

Alternative Articulations of Citizenship: The Written Discourse of a Nineteenth-Century African American Woman

The Rhetorical Display of "Publicness" in Global Institutions

Civil Disobedience and the Ethical Appeal of Self-Representation

The Coalition Rhetoric of Rose Schneiderman

Identity Across Blood Meridians

Defending the Public: Procedural Rationality and the Limits of Actually Existing Jurisprudence

Between Sympathy and Self-Interest: A Reframing of Adam Smith's Economic Rhetoric

The Concept of Global Citizenship in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire: A Challenge to Three Ideas of Rhetorical Mediation

Rhetoric of Globalization: A Social Movement Defines Its Collective Identity in America

Strategies of Objection in the Trial of the Chicago Eight

Figuration of Moral Reform in the Rhetoric of Theodore Dwight Weld

The Alphabet as Ethics: A Rhetorical Basis for Moral Reality in Hebrew Letters

Dewey, Discussion, and Democracy in Speech Pedagogy

Homepages, Blogs, and the Chronotopic Dimensions of Personal Civic (Dis-)Engagement

Civic Education and Republican Judgment: The Stem Cell Research Discourse of George W. Bush

Panoramic Memories: Realism, Agency, and the Remembrance of Japanese American Internment

Rhetorics of Subversion and Silence: The Naming of Illinois State University's Student Union

Tyrannical Technology and Thin Democracy

How Medium Clarifies Message in Emerson's "Divinity School Address."

Desire and Performance at the Classroom Door: Discursive Laminations of Academic and Civic Engagement

Sisyphus at Starbucks: Complicity Through Resistance in the Satire of Liberties

Learning to Be Civil: Citizen Judith and Old English Culture

Memory, Narrative, and Myth in the Construction of National Identity: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Senate Debate Over Reparations for Japanese Americans

Oral Mind in Civic Engagement: Common Sense and Rhetorical Action

Fanaticism, Civil Society, and the Arts of Representation in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Service-Learning and Cultural Studies: Toward a Hybrid Pedagogy of Rhetorical Intervention

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