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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Garsten, Bryan

Titel

Saving Persuasion : A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2009]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In Saving Persuasion, Bryan Garsten uncovers the early modern origins of today's suspicious attitude toward rhetoric and seeks to loosen its grip on contemporary political theory. He argues that the artful practice of persuasion ought to be viewed as a crucial part of democratic politics. Against theorists who advocate a rationalized ideal of deliberation aimed at consensus, Garsten argues that a controversial politics of partiality and passion can produce a more engaged and more deliberative kind of democratic discourse