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Robert Danisch - Building a Social Democracy, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Building a Social Democracy

The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism

Av Robert Danisch

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Building a Social Democracy offers an alternative intellectual history of American pragmatism, one that tries to reclaim the middle of the twentieth century in order to push neo-pragmatism beyond its philosophical limitations. Danisch argues that the major entailment of the invention of American pragmatism at the beginning of the twentieth century is that rhetorical practices are the rightful object of study and means of improving democratic life. Pragmatism entails a commitment to rhetoric. Rhetorical pragmatism is intended to be more faithful to the project of first generation pragmatism, to offer insight into the ways in which rhetoric operates in contemporary democratic cultures, to recommend practices, methods, and modes of action for improving contemporary democratic cultures, and to subordinate philosophy to rhetoric by reimagining appropriate ways for pragmatist scholarship and social research to advance.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-11-06
  • Mått: 160 x 236 x 30 mm
  • Vikt: 635 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 342
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9781498517775
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Robert Danisch is associate professor in the Department of Drama and Speech Communication at the University of Waterloo.

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In this accessible yet learned study, Robert Danisch provides a stimulating account of the relationship—in theory and, he hopes, in practice—between the traditions of rhetoric and pragmatism and the flourishing of a democratic public conversation marked by inclusive participation and social hope. Beginning with a distinction between philosophical and rhetorical pragmatism, Danisch offers acute analyses of the major figures in pragmatist thought and shows how by remaining largely on the level of theory, several of them (including me) block the realization of the political/social program implicit in the writings of Dewey and James. A must read for students of rhetoric and American philosophy.

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