Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights

by Arabella Lyon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271059753
• ISBN13: 9780271059754
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"