Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights

Name: Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights
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ISBN: 9780271059747

ISBN-10: 0271059745

ISBN-13: 9780271059747

Edition: 2013

Authors: Arabella Lyon

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"Offers a theory of performative deliberation, arguing that speech acts, performances, and performatives constitute citizens, agency, and events. Through analysis of human rights conflicts, it reveals difference's productivity and necessity as it demonstrates the power of performative theory"--Provided by publisher.

Book details

List price: $64.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 232
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Deliberation in the Global Era



Denning Deliberative Space: Rethinking Persuasion, Position, and Identification



Performative Deliberation and the Narratable Who



Narrating Rights, Creating Agents: Missing Women in the U.S. Media



The Beauty of Arendt's Lies: Menchï¿½'s Political Strategy



Voting like a Girl: Declarations, Paradoxes of Deliberation, and Embodied Citizens as a Difference in Kind


Notes


Works Cited


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