Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights

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INDEx abjection, 27, 108, 113–14, 118–19, 135 agency, 25–28, 67–73, 88–97, 140–41, 175–80. See also agent communitarian, 39, 42, 97 constraints on, 51–52, 87, 89, 93–94 of fictional characters, 122–25 inter-est as, 57, 87, 106, 143 lies as, 140, 147 narratives revealing, 26–27, 67–69, 82–83, 87–88, 122–25 paradoxes of, 46, 96, 146, 153, 163, 175–77 performance of, 98–102, 167 performativity of, 88–94, 165 recognition as, 58, 82–83 relational, 47, 56–58, 67, 80–85, 89–91 shared, 56–58, 68, 87, 98, 149, 168–69; compassion generating, 106 struggle, generated through, 46–47, 67, 87, 176–77, 179 subaltern, 138, 144, 146–47 agent, 79–80, 82–85, 87–90, 98–102. See also who, the question of citizen, 25–27, 103, 149 in narrative, 98–102, 125, 144, 147 norms, relationship to, 92, 94–96, 98 al-Obeidi, Eman, 84–86, 97–102, 156 agency of, 90, 98–102 media representations of, 66–69, 75, 100–102 narratives of, 84, 86–87, 98–102 Alcoff, Linda, 46, 51, 84 An-Na’im, Abdullahi Ahmed, 6–7, 20, 68, 119, 172 Anthony, Susan B., 163, 169–70 voting, 28, 166, 173–76, 180 Anderson, Benedict, 136 Anderson, Dana, 139, 188 Arendt, Hannah, 25–27. See also who, the question of on act and speech, 29, 56–59, 72, 81, 169 on act consequences and endurance, 58–59, 139–40, 151, 180 on appearance, 29, 54–55, 57–58, 81–82, 126 on compassion, 107–8, 120, 126 on democracy, 1, 10–11 on in-between, 54–56 on inter-est, 25, 56–58, 75 on lies, 27, 131–35, 149 on narrative, 83–84, 102, 126 on natality, 26, 66, 81, 135 on truth, 128–29, 131–34, 136–37, 164 on uniqueness, 21, 58, 66, 80–81, 83–86, 108, 135 Arias, Arturo, 139, 145–46 Aristotle, 29–31, 33–37, 55–56. See also persuasion; rhetoric on action, 29, 72 on citizenship, 151, 156 on compassion, 106 audience, 66, 94, 105–8, 110, 124, 126, 171. See also interlocutor; spectator Aristotelian, 25, 30–42, 56 Burkean, 63–64, 79 testimony to, 136, 139, 141, 146–47 Baier, Annette, 144 Bakhtin, M. M., 120–21, 142 Benhabib, Seyla, 6, 179 on concrete other, 86 on deliberative democracy, 10, 157 on generalized other, 86 Habermas, critique of, 13, 15 on narrative identity, 82 on reciprocity, 50–53, 61 on recognition, 49–50, 58 Berlant, Lauren, 59–60, 137 Beverley, John, 142–43, 146–47 Bill of Rights, 11, 19, 154–55 Birmingham, Peg, 132 body. See embodiment Boltanski, Luc, 34–35, 55, 67, 124 216 INDEx Braun, Carol Moseley, 15–16 Brown, Wendy, 155–56, 165 Burgos-Debray, Elisabeth, 138, 145 Burke, Kenneth, 25–26, 71–79, 80. See also performance; persuasion; speech act on constitution, 157–59 dramatism in, 43–44, 71, 82 on identification, 62–65, 88 performance in, 25–26, 71–79 on persuasion, 31, 37, 62, 71 Butler, Judith, 102, 153 on performativity, 26, 70–71, 88–98 on recognition, 81, 149–50 on reiteration, 64, 163, 165, 167 Caruth, Cathy, 132 Cavarero, Adriana. See also who, the question of on narratable self, 26, 83–87, 90–91, 93, 148–49 on necessary other, 84–85 on unique existant, 58, 83–86, 148 Chambers, Simone, 15, 18, 20 China, representations of, 104, 110–18, 121–24, 177–78 Chinese communicative theory, 25, 38–43, 96–97 Confucius, 30, 39–43, 96, 127–28, 132 Han Feizi, 45–46 Sunzi, 43–45 shi, 43–47 citation. See reiteration citizen agent, 25–28, 55–56, 70, 79, 96, 101–2 Aristotelian, 33–37, 151, 157 global, 1–4, 7–8, 96, 105–7, 110, 119 citizenship, 37 consensus, 18–21 diversity in, 3 suffrage, 152, 164–65, 167–68, 171–77 Cohen, Joshua, 9, 12, 15 colonialism, 2, 28, 98, 102, 120, 146 women’s rights, 2, 177–78 communitarian values, 22–23, 36–38, 49–50, 97, 129 in Confucianism, 42, 105, 122 in testimonio, 140–43 compassion, 26–27, 106–8, 114, 119, 122–23, 126. See also politics of pity social training in, 137 Confucian communication, 30, 39–43, 96–97 truth in, 127–28, 132 consensus, 58, 95, 181. See also sense of the meeting defined, 18–24 deliberative democracy, 9, 11, 14–25, 41–43 identification in, 60–63, 86, 164, 169 paradoxes...