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Trained Capacities - John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice (Hardcover, New)
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Trained Capacities - John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication
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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, USA.
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