Robert Danisch is professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Living Democracy represents an admirable addition to our reflections on what ails democracy—and how we are to fix it. It is unique in merging a care for our communication ecologies with a call for individual action, revealing how democracy is both something larger than each citizen and an intensely personal way of life to be maintained by each and all.

• Chapter 1: The Rhetorical Structures at the Systemic Root of Democracy Chapter 2: Democratic Rhetorical Structures and Political Cultures of ConnectionChapter 3: Anti-Democratic Rhetorical Structures and Political Cultures of DisconnectionChapter 4: Rhetorical Citizenship and the Practice of Democracy as a Way of Life

Robert Danisch is professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Living Democracy represents an admirable addition to our reflections on what ails democracy—and how we are to fix it. It is unique in merging a care for our communication ecologies with a call for individual action, revealing how democracy is both something larger than each citizen and an intensely personal way of life to be maintained by each and all.

• Chapter 1: The Rhetorical Structures at the Systemic Root of Democracy Chapter 2: Democratic Rhetorical Structures and Political Cultures of ConnectionChapter 3: Anti-Democratic Rhetorical Structures and Political Cultures of DisconnectionChapter 4: Rhetorical Citizenship and the Practice of Democracy as a Way of Life

Robert Danisch is professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

Living Democracy represents an admirable addition to our reflections on what ails democracy—and how we are to fix it. It is unique in merging a care for our communication ecologies with a call for individual action, revealing how democracy is both something larger than each citizen and an intensely personal way of life to be maintained by each and all.

• Chapter 1: The Rhetorical Structures at the Systemic Root of Democracy Chapter 2: Democratic Rhetorical Structures and Political Cultures of ConnectionChapter 3: Anti-Democratic Rhetorical Structures and Political Cultures of DisconnectionChapter 4: Rhetorical Citizenship and the Practice of Democracy as a Way of Life