Imagining deliberative democracy in the early American republic

Deliberation: a very brief history -- The idea of deliberation -- Deliberation and democracy in the early American republic -- Whitman, Dewey, and the place of the arts -- Theories of republicanism and deliberative democracy -- Modern republicanism in the Atlantic world -- The eloquence of modern re...

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1. Verfasser: Gustafson, Sandra M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chicago, Ill. u.a. Univ. of Chicago Press 2011
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Zusammenfassung:Deliberation: a very brief history -- The idea of deliberation -- Deliberation and democracy in the early American republic -- Whitman, Dewey, and the place of the arts -- Theories of republicanism and deliberative democracy -- Modern republicanism in the Atlantic world -- The eloquence of modern republicanism -- The view from Bunker Hill -- Writing the modern republic -- Models of ancient eloquence -- Res publica redivivus -- Eloquent Shakespeare -- Arguing with the Bible -- The politics and aesthetics of deliberation -- The rise of literary oratory -- Daniel Webster's genuine word -- The frontier humor of David Crockett -- Prophesying the multiracial republic -- Democracy and the "three races" -- Beyond the white Christian republic -- Reasoning with David Walker -- Listening to the wisdom of babes -- Toward multiracial deliberations -- Deliberative fictions -- Failures of deliberation -- Cooper's trials -- How to read deliberatively -- Democratic hermeneutics -- The great American deliberative novel -- Protest at Mashpee -- Property matters -- Conclusion: deliberative democracy past and future.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Deliberation: a very brief history -- The idea of deliberation -- Deliberation and democracy in the early American republic -- Whitman, Dewey, and the place of the arts -- Theories of republicanism and deliberative democracy -- Modern republicanism in the Atlantic world -- The eloquence of modern republicanism -- The view from Bunker Hill -- Writing the modern republic -- Models of ancient eloquence -- Res publica redivivus -- Eloquent Shakespeare -- Arguing with the Bible -- The politics and aesthetics of deliberation -- The rise of literary oratory -- Daniel Webster's genuine word -- The frontier humor of David Crockett -- Prophesying the multiracial republic -- Democracy and the "three races" -- Beyond the white Christian republic -- Reasoning with David Walker -- Listening to the wisdom of babes -- Toward multiracial deliberations -- Deliberative fictions -- Failures of deliberation -- Cooper's trials -- How to read deliberatively -- Democratic hermeneutics -- The great American deliberative novel -- Protest at Mashpee -- Property matters -- Conclusion: deliberative democracy past and future
Beschreibung:X, 271 S.
24 cm
ISBN:0226311295
0-226-31129-5
9780226311296
978-0-226-31129-6