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Author:

Lyon, Arabella, 1951-

Title:

Deliberative acts : democracy, rhetoric, and rights / Arabella Lyon.

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

viii, 222 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Deliberative democracy.
Performative (Philosophy)
Human rights.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-214) and index.

Contents:

Defining deliberative space : rethinking persuasion, position, and identification -- Performative deliberation and the narratable who -- Narrating rights, creating agents : missing women in the U.S. media -- The beauty of Arendt's lies : Mench©ð's political strategy -- Voting like a girl : declarations, paradoxes of deliberation, and embodied citizens as a difference in kind.

Summary:

"Offers a theory of performative deliberation, arguing that speech acts, performances, and performatives constitute citizens, agency, and events. Through analysis of human rights conflicts, it reveals difference's productivity and necessity as it demonstrates the power of performative theory"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Rhetoric and democratic deliberation

ISBN:

0271059745 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780271059747 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)826640068

LCCN:

2012047606

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)