The Problematic Public
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-09677-3 (ISBN)
Almost one hundred years have passed since Walter Lippmann and John Dewey published their famous reflections on the “problems of the public,” but their thoughts remain surprisingly relevant as resources for thinking through our current crisis-plagued predicament. This book takes stock of the reception history of Lippmann’s and Dewey’s ideas about publics, communication, and political decision-making and shows how their ideas can inspire a way forward.
Lippmann and Dewey were only two of many twentieth-century thinkers trying to imagine how a modern industrial democracy might (or might not) come to pass, but despite that, the “Lippmann/Dewey debate” became a symbol of the two alleged options: an epistocracy, on the one hand, and grassroots participation, on the other. In this book, distinguished scholars from rhetoric, communication, sociology, and media and journalism studies reconsider this debate in order to assess its contemporary relevance for our time, which, in some respects, bears a striking resemblance to the 1920s. In this way, the book explains how and why Lippmann and Dewey are indispensable resources for anyone concerned with the future of democratic deliberation and decision-making.
In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Nathan Crick, Robert Danisch, Steve Fuller, William Keith, Bruno Latour, John Durham Peters, Patricia Roberts-Miller, Michael Schudson, Anna Shechtman, Slavko Splichal, Lisa S. Villadsen, and Scott Welsh.
Kristian Bjørkdahl is Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Lippmann, Dewey, and Democracy in a Hailstorm
Kristian Bjørkdahl
1 A “Constituency of Intangibles”: Walter Lippmann’s Plea for a Better Democracy
Michael Schudson
2 The Lippmann/Lippmann Debate: What Role Do Social Movements Play in Democratic Politics?
Nathan Crick
3 From the Illusions of Democracy to the Realities of Its Appearances
Bruno Latour
4 Debates Conjured, Debates Forgotten
Anna Shechtman and John Durham Peters
5 Societal Embedding of the Lippmann/Dewey Debate: From Opinion Expression to Opinion Polling and Mining
Slavko Splichal
6 The Lippmann/Dewey Debate in the History of Twentieth-Century Progressivism
Steve Fuller
7 Propaedeutic Rhetorical Citizenship: Deweyan Impulses in Danish Community-Building
Lisa S. Villadsen
8 A Public and Its Solutions: Lippmann and Dewey Through the Prism of Norwegian Social Democracy
Kristian Bjørkdahl
9 Democracy Now: Recovering the Political Pragmatism of Walter Lippmann and John Dewey
Scott Welsh
10 Democratic Deliberation, Identity, and Information
Patricia Roberts-Miller
11 Rhetorical Sociology and the Management of Public Discourse
Robert Danisch and William Keith
List of Contributors
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.12.2023 |
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Reihe/Serie | Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation |
Verlagsort | University Park |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 481 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
ISBN-10 | 0-271-09677-2 / 0271096772 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-09677-3 / 9780271096773 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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