Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights (Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation) - Softcover

Lyon, Arabella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0271059753 ISBN 13: 9780271059754

Publisher: Penn State University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The twenty-first century is characterized by the global circulation of cultures, norms, representations, discourses, and human rights claims; the arising conflicts require innovative understandings of decision making. Deliberative Acts develops a new, cogent theory of performative deliberation. Rather than conceiving deliberation within the familiar frameworks of persuasion, identification, or procedural democracy, it privileges speech acts and bodily enactments that constitute deliberation itself, reorienting deliberative theory toward the initiating moment of recognition, a moment in which interlocutors are positioned in relationship to each other and so may begin to construct a new lifeworld. By approaching human rights not as norms or laws, but as deliberative acts, Lyon conceives rights as relationships among people and as ongoing political and historical projects developing communal norms through global and cross-cultural interactions.

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About the Author

Arabella Lyon is Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo. Her 1998 book Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored (Penn State) won the W. Ross Winterowd Award from the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271059753
• ISBN 13: 9780271059754
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232