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Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights

Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights

Lyon, Arabella

Paperback

Series: Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation, Book 7

General ReferenceGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0271059753
ISBN13: 9780271059754
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: May 28 2013
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The twenty-first century is characterized by the global circulation of cultures, norms, representations, discourses, and human rights claims; the arising conflicts require innovative understandings of decision making. Deliberative Acts develops a new, cogent theory of performative deliberation. Rather than conceiving deliberation within the familiar frameworks of persuasion, identification, or procedural democracy, it privileges speech acts and bodily enactments that constitute deliberation itself, reorienting deliberative theory toward the initiating moment of recognition, a moment in which interlocutors are positioned in relationship to each other and so may begin to construct a new lifeworld. By approaching human rights not as norms or laws, but as deliberative acts, Lyon conceives rights as relationships among people and as ongoing political and historical projects developing communal norms through global and cross-cultural interactions.

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