Beyond Civility: The Competing Obligations of Citizenship

by William Keith and Robert Danisch

Book Overview

From the pundits to the polls, nearly everyone seems to agree that US politics have rarely been more fractious, and calls for a return to "civil discourse" abound. Yet it is also true that the requirements of polite discourse effectively silence those who are not in power, gaming the system against the disenfranchised. What, then, should a democracy do?

This book makes a case for understanding civility in a different light. Examining the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271087307
• ISBN13: 9780271087306
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.8"