Fall 2003
C612: Constituting Democracy in Rhetorical Discourse
Course Outline
Time and Place:
Friday,
Office Hours: Monday
& Wednesday,
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
Assigned Books
Roland Bleiker, Popular
Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics (
John S. Dryzek, Deliberative
Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics,
Contestations (
Gerard A. Hauser, Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres (Columbia: The University of south Carolina Press, 1999).
Iris Marion Young, Inclusion and Democracy (
Schedule of Classes
• Michael
Moore’s Bowling for Columbine; Troy Murphy, “Civil Society, the
•
• Dryzek, pp. 1-80 9/19
• Dryzek, pp. 81-175 9/26
• Young, pp. 1-120 10/3
• Young, pp. 121-275 10/10
• Mouffe 10/17
• Bleiker, pp. 1-184 10/24
• Bleiker, pp. 185-282 10/31
• Hauser, pp. 1-160 11/7
• Hauser, pp. 161-281 11/14
Assignments
Approximately five pages. Due Monday, October 13.
Approximately five pages. Due Monday, November 3.
Approximately twenty-five pages
plus endnotes;
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
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 (
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
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 (
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
(
Inc., 1997).
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
Louis Hartz, The
Liberal Tradition in
David Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From the
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
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 (
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.
Carlos Santiago Nino, The Constitution of Deliberative Democracy (New Haven, NJ: Yale University Press, 1996).
Josiah Ober, Mass and Elite in
Democratic
Josiah Ober, Political Dissent
in Democratic
Noël O’Sullivan, ed. Political Theory in Transition (
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
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:
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
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 (
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. (
Press, 1987), pp. 761-83.
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