Fall 2003 

Robert Ivie

 

C612:  Constituting Democracy in Rhetorical Discourse

 

Course Outline

 

 

Time and Place:  Friday, 9:30 – 12:00 Noon; Mottier 112

Office Hours:  Monday & Wednesday, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. and by appointment; Mottier 203

Office Phone:  855-5467; E-mail:  rivie@indiana.edu

 

Purpose of the Course

 

This course examines the role of rhetoric in liberal democracy.  It considers problematic rhetorical constructions of democracy, deliberation, and dissent in U.S. political culture and how they might be reconstituted.

 

Assigned Books

 

Roland Bleiker, Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2000)

 

John S. Dryzek, Deliberative Democracy and Beyond:  Liberals, Critics, Contestations (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2000)

 

Gerard A. Hauser, Vernacular Voices:  The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres (Columbia:  The University of south Carolina Press, 1999).

 

Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox (London:  Verso, 2000)

 

Iris Marion Young, Inclusion and Democracy (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2000)

 

Schedule of Classes

 

  1. Democracy in American Political Culture (2 weeks)

•     Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine; Troy Murphy, “Civil Society, the Highlander Folk School, and the Cultivation of  Rhetorical Invention, Communication Review 6 (2003):  1-22 (photocopy in Mottier mailroom)  9/5

•     Robert Ivie, ““Republic of Fear” and “Distempered Demos” in Democracy and America’s War on Terror (photocopy in Mottier mailroom)  9/12

 

  1. Discursive Democracy (2 weeks)

•     Dryzek, pp. 1-80  9/19

•     Dryzek, pp. 81-175  9/26

 

  1. Communicative Democracy (2 weeks)

•     Young, pp. 1-120  10/3

•     Young, pp. 121-275  10/10

 

  1. Agonistic Democracy (1 week)

•     Mouffe  10/17

 

  1. Democratic Dissent  (2 weeks)

•     Bleiker, pp. 1-184  10/24

•     Bleiker, pp. 185-282 10/31

 

  1. The Rhetorical Public (2 weeks)

•     Hauser, pp. 1-160  11/7

•     Hauser, pp. 161-281  11/14

 

  1. Research and Writing (3 weeks)

 

Assignments

 

  1. Weekly discussion of assigned readings (20%)
  2. Written review of Dryzek and Young, as they apply to term project.  (20%)

Approximately five pages.  Due Monday, October 13.

  1. Written review of Mouffe and Bleiker, as they apply to term project.  (20%)

Approximately five pages.  Due Monday, November 3.

  1. Term paper.  (40%)

Approximately twenty-five pages plus endnotes; Chicago or MLA style.  Due Monday, December 15

 

The specific subject and aim of this paper should be worked out individually with the instructor.  This theory/critique essay should build on the readings in the course to address the question of rhetoric as a resource for constructing a robust democratic practice/culture.  It should advance an original thesis and should draw on scholarship that extends beyond the class readings.  Some additional resources from which you may wish to draw for this assignment are listed below.  This list of additional resources is meant to be suggestive, not definitive.

 

Additional Resources

 

Bruce Ackerman, We the People:  Foundations (Belknap, 1991).

 

Bruce Ackerman, We the People:  Transformations (Belknap, 1998).

 

Daniele Archibugi and David Held, eds., Cosmopolitan Democracy: An Agenda for a New World Order (Cambridge, MA: Polity Press, 1995).

 

Benjamin R. Barber, A Passion for Democracy: American Essays (Princeton UP, 1998)

 

Benjamin Barber, Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1984).

 

Seyla Benhabib, ed., Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).

 

 

Joseph M. Bessette, The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994).

 

Susan Bickford, The Dissonance of Democracy: Listening, Conflict, and Citizenship (Ithaca, NY: Corrnell University Press, 1996).

 

Norberto Bobbio, Liberalism and Democracy (London: Verso Press, 1990).

 

James Bohman, Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996).

 

James Bohman and William Rehg, eds., Deliberative Democracy: Essays on Reason and Politics (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1997).

 

Aryeh Botwinick and William E. Connolly, ed. Democracy and Vision:  Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of the Political (Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 2001).

 

Michael E. Brown, Sean M. Lynn-Jones, and Steven E. Miller, eds., Debating the Democractic Peace: An International Security Reader (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1996).

 

Roger Burbach, "The Tragedy of American Democracy," in Low Intensity Democracy: Political Power in the New World Order, ed. Barry Gills, Joel Rocamora, and Richard Wilson (London: Pluto Press, 1993), 100-123.

 

Simone Chambers, Reasonable Democracy: Jürgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996).

 

Kenneth Cmiel, Democratic Eloquence:  The Fight over Popular speech in Nineteenth-Century America (New York:  William Morrow and Co., 1990).

 

William E. Connolly, "Democracy and Territoriality," in Rhetorical Republic: Governing Representations in American Politics, ed. Frederick M. Dolan and Thomas L. Dumm (Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1993), 249-274.

 

William E. Connolly, The Terms of Political Discourse, 3rd ed. (Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1993).

 

Robert A. Dahl, Democracy and Its Critics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989).

 

John S. Dryzek, Deliberative Democracy and Beyond:   Liberals, Critics, Contestations (Oxford UP, 2000).

 

John S. Dryzek, Discursive Democracy: Politics, Policy, and Political Science (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

 

Jon Elster, ed., Deliberative Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

 

Richard Falk, "The Gulf War and the Death of Democracy," in The Multiverse of Democracy: Essays in Honour of Rajni Kothari, ed. D.L. Sheth and Ashis

Nandy (London: Sage Publications, 1996), pp. 116-135.

 

James S. Fishkin, Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions in Democratic Reform (New Haven, NJ: Yale University Press, 1991).

 

James S. Fishkin, The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy (New Haven, NJ: Yale University Press, 1995).

 

Alan Gilbert, Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy? Great-Power Realism, Democratic Peace, and Democratic Internationalism (Princeton UP,1999)

 

Sue Golding, Gramsci's Democratic Theory: Contributions to a Post-Liberal Democracy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992).

 

Philip Green, ed., Democracy (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1993).

 

Gary L. Gregg II, The Presidential Republic: Executive Representation and Deliberative Democracy (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefiled Publishers,

Inc., 1997).

 

Lawrence K. Grossman, The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age (New York: Viking, 1995).

 

Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1996).

 

Jürgen Habermas, Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996).

 

Russell L. Hanson, The Democratic Imagination in America:  Conversations with Our Past (Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1985).

 

Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1955).

 

Lawrence J. Hatab, A Nietzschean Defense of Democracy: An Experiment in Postmodern Politics (Chicago: Open Court, 1995).

 

David Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995).

 

David Held, Models of Democracy (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1987).

 

Jeffrey C. Isaac, Democracy in Dark Times (Cornell UP, 1998).

 

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

 

Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion:  An American History, rev. ed. (Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1995).

 

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics (London: Verso, 1985).

 

Douglas Lummis, Radical Democracy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996).

 

C. B. MacPherson, The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977).

 

Peter T. Manicas, War and Democracy (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Basil Blackwell, 1989).

 

Jane Mansbridge, Beyond Adversary Democracy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).

 

Gerald M. Mara, Socrates' Discursive Democracy: Logos and Ergon in Platonic Political Philosophy (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press,

1997).

 

George E. Marcus and Russell L. Hanson, eds., Reconsidering the Democratic Public (Univerity Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993).

 

Richard K. Matthews, If Men Were Angels: James Madison and the Heartless Empire of Reason (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995).

 

Kevin Mattson, Creating a Democratic Public:  The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy During the Progressive Era (Penn State UP, 1998).

 

Noelle McAfee, Habermas, Kristeva, and Citizenship (Cornell UP, 2000).

 

Joshua Mitchell, The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995).

 

James A. Morone, The Democratic Wish:  Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government, rev. ed.  (New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1990).

 

Richard Morris and Mary E. Stuckey, "'More Rain and Less Thunder': Substitute Vocabularies, Richard Nixon, and the Construction of Political Reality,"

Communication Monographs 64 (1997): 140-60.

 

Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox (Verso, 2000).

 

Chantal Mouffe, ed., Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism, Citzenship, Community (London: Verso, 1992).

 

Chantal Mouffe, The Return of the Political (London: Verso, 1993).

 

Carlos Santiago Nino, The Constitution of Deliberative Democracy (New Haven, NJ: Yale University Press, 1996).

 

Josiah Ober, Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens:  Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People (Princeton UP, 1989).

 

Josiah Ober, Political Dissent in Democratic Athens:  Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule (Princeton UP, 1998).

 

Noël O’Sullivan, ed. Political Theory in Transition (New York:  Routledge, 2000).

 

Thomas L. Pangle, The Ennobling of Democracy: The Challenge of the Postmodern Age (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).

 

James Lee Ray, Democracy and International Conflict: An Evaluation of the Democratic Peace Proposition (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1995).

 

Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Coutry: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998).

 

Bruce Russett, Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993).

 

Michael J. Sandel, Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996).

 

Michael Saward, The Terms of Democracy (Cambridge:  Polity Press, 1998).

 

Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Athenian Democracy:  Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists (U of Notre Dame P, 1996).

 

Michael Schudson, The Good Citizen:  A History of American Civic Life (Harvard UP, 1998).

 

Ian Shapiro, Democratic Justice (New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1999).

 

Anna Marie Smith, Laclau and Mouffe:  The Radical Democratic Imaginary (London:  Routledge, 1998).

 

Tony Smith, The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).

 

J. Michael Sproule, Propaganda and Democracy:  The American Experience of Media and Mass Persuasion  (Cambridge UP, 1997)

 

Cass R. Sunstein, Designing Democracy:  What Constitutions Do (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2001).

 

Jeffrey K. Tulis, The Rhetorical Presidency (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988).

 

David Trend, ed., Radical Democracy: Identity, Citizenship, and the State (New York: Routledge, 1996).

 

Robert H. Wiebe, Self-Rule:  A Cultural History of American Democracy (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1995).

 

Charles Arthur Willard, Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge: A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).

 

Marvin Zetterbaum, "Alexis De Tocqueville," in History of Political Philosophy, ed. Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, 3rd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago

Press, 1987), pp. 761-83.

 

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