The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy : How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics.

The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics, by Scott Welsh, disputes the idea that democracy has anything to do with public deliberation in pursuit of collective judgment. Welsh argues, rather, that the impossibility of any kind of public judgment is t...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Welsh, Scott
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Cure for What Ails You; 1 Taking Politics Out of Rhetoric; 2 Coming to Terms with Rhetoric; 3 Democratic Ends; 4 Truth against Judgment; 5 Between Rhetorical Reflection and Political Agency; Conclusion: Democracy at the Edge of the Abyss; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.