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Author Lyon, Arabella

Title Deliberative Acts Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights
Published University Park : Penn State University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (200 p.)
Series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ; v.7
Rhetoric and democratic deliberation.
Contents Cover Page -- Half title -- Contributor -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction: Deliberation in the Global Era -- Deliberation and Deliberative Democracy -- A Better Consensus -- Deliberative Acts -- 1 Defining Deliberative Space: Rethinking Persuasion, Position, and Identification -- Persuasive Limitations -- Alternatives to Persuasion -- Positioned Potential -- Recognition -- Identification as Magical Thinking -- 2 Performative Deliberation and the Narratable Who -- Doing Things: Utterances and the Drama -- Who and the Narratable Self
Performativity and the Limits of Agency -- Replay and Reiteration: Eman al-Obeidi's Second Performance -- 3 Narrating Rights, Creating Agents: Missing Women in the U.S. Media -- Missing Women -- China and the U.S. Press -- Marie Claire -- Deliberation -- Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club and Performative Deliberations -- 4 The Beauty of Arendt's Lies: MenchĂș's Political Strategy -- Arendt on Truths and Lies -- Refusing Lies and Failing Recognition -- 5 Voting like a Girl: Declarations, Paradoxes of Deliberation, and Embodied Citizens as a Difference in Kind -- Performative Paradoxes -- Voting like a Girl
A Difference in Kind -- Deliberation Without End -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- Works Cited -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Performative (Philosophy)
Human rights
Deliberative democracy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271069944
0271069945