Imagining deliberative democracy in the early American republic
By: Sandra M. Gustafson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780226311296
Subjects: Politics and government; Deliberative democracy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Deliberation: a very brief history; title: The idea of deliberation; title: Deliberation and democracy in the early American republic; title: Whitman, Dewey, and the place of the arts; title: Theories of republicanism and deliberative democracy; title: Modern republicanism in the Atlantic world; title: The eloquence of modern republicanism; title: The view from Bunker Hill; title: Writing the modern republic; title: Models of ancient eloquence; title: Res publica redivivus; title: Eloquent Shakespeare; title: Arguing with the Bible; title: The politics and aesthetics of deliberation; title: The rise of literary oratory; title: Daniel Webster's genuine word; title: The frontier humor of David Crockett; title: Prophesying the multiracial republic; title: Democracy and the "three races"; title: Beyond the white Christian republic; title: Reasoning with David Walker; title: Listening to the wisdom of babes; title: Toward multiracial deliberations; title: Deliberative fictions; title: Failures of deliberation; title: Cooper's trials; title: How to read deliberatively; title: Democratic hermeneutics; title: The great American deliberative novel; title: Protest at Mashpee; title: Property matters; title: Conclusion: deliberative democracy past and future.