| Contents |
Introduction : deliberative democracy and the rhetorical turn / Benedetto Fontana, Cary J. Nederman, and Gary Remer -- Rhetoric and the roots of democratic politics / Benedetto Fontana -- Democratic deliberation and the historian's trade : the case of Thucydides / Arlene W. Saxonhouse -- Deliberation versus decision : platonism in contemporary democratic theory / Gary Shiffman -- Rhetorical democracy / Russell Bentley -- Cicero and the ethics of deliberative rhetoric / Gary Remer -- Disarming, simple, and sweet : Augustine's republican rhetoric / John von Heyking -- The road to heaven is paved with pious deceptions : medieval speech ethics and deliberative democracy / Cary J. Nederman and Tsae Lan Lee Dow -- Deliberative democracy and the public sphere : answer or anachronism? / Thomas Murphy -- Auditory democracy : separation of powers and the locations of listening / John Uhr -- Reading J.S. Mill's The subjection of women as a text of deliberative rhetoric / Nadia Urbinati -- Criteria of rationality for evaluating democratic public rhetoric / Douglas Walton. |
