Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation

351 Pages·2012·6.165 MB·English

by  Christian Kock (editor), Lisa Villadsen (editor)

Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation
edited by christian kock and lisa s. villadsen
rhetorical citizenship and public deliberation
VOLUME 3
edited by cheryl glenn and j. michael hogan
the pennsylvania state university
Editorial Board:
Robert Asen (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Debra Hawhee (The Pennsylvania State University)
Peter Levine (Tufts University)
Steven J. Mailloux (University of California, Irvine)
Krista Ratcliffe (Marquette University)
Karen Tracy (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Kirt Wilson (The Pennsylvania State University)
David Zarefsky (Northwestern University)
Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation is a series of
groundbreaking monographs and edited volumes focusing
on the character and quality of public discourse in politics
and culture. It is sponsored by the Center for Democratic
Deliberation, an interdisciplinary center for research, teaching,
and outreach on issues of rhetoric, civic engagement,
and public deliberation.
Other books in the series:
Karen Tracy, Challenges of Ordinary Democracy:
A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent
Samuel McCormick, Letters to Power:
Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rhetorical citizenship and public deliberation / edited
by Christian Kock and Lisa S. Villadsen.
p. cm. — (Rhetoric and democratic deliberation)
Summary: “A collection of essays examining
citizenship as a discursive phenomenon, in the
sense that important civic functions take place in
deliberation among citizens and that discourse is not
prefatory to real action but in many ways constitutive
of civic engagement”—Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-271-05387-5 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Citizenship.
2. Deliberative democracy.
3. Political participation.
I. Kock, Christian.
II. Villadsen, Lisa S., 1968– .
JF801.R52 2012
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Citizenship as a Rhetorical Practice /
Christian Kock and Lisa S. Villadsen 1
section i: tracing rhetorical citizenship as concept
and practice
1 Deliberative Democracy: Mapping Out the Deliberative
Turn in Democratic Theory / Kasper Møller Hansen 13
2 The Making of Truth in Debate: The Case of (and a
Case for) the Early Sophists / Manfred Kraus 28
3 The Search for “Real” Democracy: Rhetorical Citizenship
and Public Deliberation in France and the United States,
1870–1940 / William Keith and Paula Cossart 46
section ii: public deliberation as rhetorical practice
Part 1 Considering Norms of Communicative Behavior
4 The Respect Fallacy: Limits of Respect in Public
Dialogue / Italo Testa 69
5 Dialectical Citizenship? Some Thoughts on the Role of
Pragmatics in the Analysis of Public Debate /
Niels Møller Nielsen 86
6 Provocative Style: The Gaarder Debate Example /
Marie Lund Klujeff 101
vi contents
7 Virtual Deliberations: Talking Politics Online
in Hungary / Ildikó Kaposi 115
Part 2 Critiques of “Elite” Discourse
8 Dis-playing Democracy: The Rhetoric of Duplicity /
Kristian Wedberg 137
9 Rhetoric of War, Rhetoric of Gender /
Berit von der Lippe 153
10 Speaking of Terror: Norms of Rhetorical Citizenship
in Danish Public Discourse / Lisa S. Villadsen 169
11 “This May Be the Law, but Should It Be?”: Tony Blair’s Rhetoric
of Exception / Bart van Klink and Oliver W. Lembcke 181
Part 3 Rhetorical Citizenship Across Communicative Settings
12 I Agree, but . . . : Finding Alternatives to Controversial
Projects Through Public Deliberation / James McDonald 199
13 Deliberation as Behavior in Public / Tatiana Tatarchevskiy 218
14 Homing in on the Arguments: The Rhetorical Construction of Subject
Positions in Debates on the Danish Real Estate Market /
Sine Nørholm Just and Jonas Gabrielsen 232
15 Danish Revue: Satire as Rhetorical Citizenship /
Jette Barnholdt Hansen 249
section iii: toward better deliberative practices
16 Presidential Primary Debate as a Genre of Journalistic
Discourse: How Can We Put Debate into the Debates? /
John Adams and Stephen West 267
contents vii
17 A Tool for Rhetorical Citizenship: Generalizing the
Status System / Christian Kock 279
18 Interpretive Debates Revisited / Georgia Warnke 296
About the Contributors 315
Index 321

introduction:
citizenship as a rhetorical practice
Christian Kock and Lisa S. Villadsen
The assemblies . . . will deliberate better when all are deliberating jointly, the
common people when with the notables and these when with the masses.
—Aristotle, Politics
There is a relationship between attentiveness and care, and to care about
democracy is to care whether and how citizens speak.
—Robert Hariman, “Amateur Hour: Knowing What to Love in
Ordinary Democracy”
Citizenship has long been a keyword among educators, philosophers, and
political theorists. Using the phrase “rhetorical citizenship” as a unifying
perspective, this book aims to develop an understanding of citizenship as
a discursive phenomenon in the sense that important civic functions take
place in deliberation among citizens, and that discourse is not prefatory to
real action but is in many ways constitutive of civic engagement. The book
pursues this aim by bringing together, in a cross-disciplinary effort, contribu-
tions by scholars in fields that rarely intersect.
Liberal vs. Republican Notions of Citizenship
For the most part, discussions as well as implementations of citizenship
have focused on those aspects of it that are central to the “liberal” tradition
of social thought—that is, questions of the freedoms and rights of citizens
and groups.
The essays in this volume give voice to a “republican” conception in the
thinking about citizenship. Seeing participation and debate as central to being
a citizen, this tradition looks back to the Greek city-states and republican Rome.