Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice

Name: Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice
Author: Brian Jackson and Gregory Clark (editors)
ISBN: 9781611173185

Brian Jackson and Gregory Clark (editors)

Language: English

Published by The University of South Carolina Press, 2014

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Title: Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice
Author: Brian Jackson and Gregory Clark (editors)
Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
Publication year: 2014
Condition: Very good
Dust jacket: No Jacket
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1611173183
ISBN 13: 9781611173185
Series: Book 40 of 69: Studies in Rhetoric & Communication
Seller catalogs: Literature, Philosophy, Politics

The essays in this collection, written by sixteen scholars in rhetoric and communications studies, demonstrate American philosopher John Dewey's wide-ranging influence on rhetoric in an intellectual tradition that addresses the national culture's fundamental conflicts between self and society, freedom and responsibility, and individual advancement and the common good. Editors Brian Jackson and Gregory Clark propose that this influence is at work both in theoretical foundations, such as science, pragmatism, and religion, and in Dewey's debates with other public intellectuals such as Jane Addams, Walter Lippmann, James Baldwin, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Jackson and Clark seek to establish Dewey as an essential source for those engaged in teaching others how to compose timely, appropriate, useful, and eloquent responses to the diverse and often-contentious rhetorical situations that develop in a democratic culture. They contend that there is more at stake than instruction in traditional modes of public discourse because democratic culture encompasses a variety of situations, private or public, civic or professional, where people must cooperate in the work of advancing a common project. What prepares people to intervene constructively in such situations is instruction in those rhetorical practices of democratic interaction that is implicit throughout Dewey's work. Dewey's writing provides a rich framework on which a distinctly American tradition of a democratic rhetorical practice can be built-a tradition that combines the most useful concepts of classical rhetoric with those of modern progressive civic engagement. Jackson and Clark believe Dewey's practice takes rhetoric beyond the traditional emphasis on political democracy to provide connections to rich veins of American thought such as individualism, liberalism, progressive education, collectivism, pragmatism, and postindustrial science and communication. They frame Dewey's voluminous work as constituting a modern expression of continuing education for the "trained capacities" required to participate in democratic culture. For Dewey human potential is best realized in the free flow of artful communication among the individuals who together constitute society. The book concludes with an afterword by Gerard A. Hauser, College Professor of Distinction in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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