Building a Social Democracy: The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism - Couverture rigide

Danisch, Robert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498517773 ISBN 13 : 9781498517775

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2015

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert Danisch is associate professor in the Department of Drama and Speech Communication at the University of Waterloo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498517773
• ISBN 13: 9781498517775
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 342
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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