Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement

Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 12
1 Rhetorical Democracy and Civic Engagement......Page 14
I: Plenary Papers......Page 28
2 Citizen Voices in Cyberpolitical Culture......Page 30
3 Identification and Resistance: Women's Civic Discourse Across the Color Line......Page 46
4 Plato's Shibboleth Delineations; or, the Complete Idiot's Guide to Rhetoric......Page 58
5 The Temple Issues Forum: Innovations in Pedagogy for Civic Engagement......Page 66
II: President's Panel: The Rhetoric of 9/11 and Its Aftermath......Page 82
Introduction to the President's Panel......Page 84
6 Terrorist Rhetorics, Rhetorics of Democracies, and Worlds of Meaning......Page 86
7 The Triumph of Consolatory Ritual Over Deliberation Since 9/11......Page 88
8 Citizen Rhetorics After 9/11: Back to Bidness as Usual......Page 94
9 The Rehabilitation of Propaganda: Post-9/11 Media Coverage in the United States......Page 98
10 Remarks for 9/11 Panel......Page 104
11 Public Culture and Public Stupidity Post-9/11......Page 108
12 Love and Theft After 9/11: Magnification in the Rhetorical Aftermath......Page 112
III: Selected Papers......Page 118
13 Populist Poetry or Rantum-Scantum? The Civil Disobedients of Poetry Slams......Page 120
14 Alternative Articulations of Citizenship: The Written Discourse of a Nineteenth-Century African American Woman......Page 128
15 The Rhetorical Display of "Publicness" in Global Institutions......Page 136
16 Civil Disobedience and the Ethical Appeal of Self-Representation......Page 144
17 The Coalition Rhetoric of Rose Schneiderman......Page 150
18 Identity Across Blood Meridians......Page 158
19 Defending the Public: Procedural Rationality and the Limits of Actually Existing Jurisprudence......Page 164
20 Between Sympathy and Self-Interest: A Reframing of Adam Smith's Economic Rhetoric......Page 172
21 The Concept of Global Citizenship in Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire: A Challenge to Three Ideas of Rhetorical Mediation......Page 178
22 Rhetoric of Globalization: A Social Movement Defines Its Collective Identity in America......Page 186
23 Strategies of Objection in the Trial of the Chicago Eight......Page 192
24 Figuration of Moral Reform in the Rhetoric of Theodore Dwight Weld......Page 200
25 The Alphabet as Ethics: A Rhetorical Basis for Moral Reality in Hebrew Letters......Page 208
26 Dewey, Discussion, and Democracy in Speech Pedagogy......Page 218
27 Homepages, Blogs, and the Chronotopic Dimensions of Personal Civic (Dis-)Engagement......Page 226
28 Civic Education and Republican Judgment: The Stem Cell Research Discourse of George W. Bush......Page 234
29 Panoramic Memories: Realism, Agency, and the Remembrance of Japanese American Internment......Page 242
30 Rhetorics of Subversion and Silence: The Naming of Illinois State University's Student Union......Page 250
31 Tyrannical Technology and Thin Democracy......Page 256
32 How Medium Clarifies Message in Emerson's "Divinity School Address"......Page 262
33 Desire and Performance at the Classroom Door: Discursive Laminations of Academic and Civic Engagement......Page 268
34 Sisyphus at Starbucks: Complicity Through Resistance in the Satire of Liberties......Page 274
35 Learning to Be Civil: Citizen Judith and Old English Culture......Page 282
36 Memory, Narrative, and Myth in the Construction of National Identity: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Senate Debate Over Reparations for Japanese Americans......Page 290
37 Oral Mind in Civic Engagement: Common Sense and Rhetorical Action......Page 298
38 Fanaticism, Civil Society, and the Arts of Representation in Sixteenth-Century Mexico......Page 306
39 Service-Learning and Cultural Studies: Toward a Hybrid Pedagogy of Rhetorical Intervention......Page 314
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