Democracy and Rhetoric: John Dewey on the Arts of Becoming

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action, 192 aesthetic: as decorative, 142; as experience , 144; importance of resistance to, 148, 152, 155, 171, 175; in raw, 139–40; and reason, 130; as superficial , 130, 135, 142; versus nonaesthetic , 153 appropriate, 182 Arendt, Hannah, 192 argument, 150, 173, 187 aristocracy, 18 Aristotle, 45, 49, 75, 84, 165, 168, 169, 172 Aristophanes, 90 Arnold, Matthew, 160 art: and civilization, 187; as communication , 136, 161–62; fine and popular, 5; fine and useful, 148–51; as madness, 131; and morality, 157–64; as techne, 5, 8, 27, 87, 93, 127–28, 147; as object, 136–37; and science, 148–49, 179; work of, 136, 156 Augustine, Saint, 163 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 134, 136, 141 becoming, ontology of, 8, 15, 22–26, 33, 34, 44, 84, 134, 152, 157; arts of, 22, 35, 79; and democracy, 20, 192; and ethics, 76, 95; and inquiry, 96, 122; and self, 19, 44, 66 Berkeley, Bishop, 130–31 Bitzer, Lloyd, 26–29 Black, Edwin, 137–39, 176 Booth, Wayne, 162, 176 Burke, Kenneth, 48, 52, 53, 78, 140–41, 155, 178, 193 Ceccarelli, Leah, 94, 118–19 Charland, Maurice, 13, 65 character, 56–59 choice, 28–29, 45 Coltrane, John, 155 common sense, 96, 99–103, 105, 107–11, 119–20 communication, 39, 40, 67, 74, 98, 120; face-to-face, 69–72 conceptualism, 104 Condit, Celeste Michelle, 95–96, 102, 114–15, 116, 186 consciousness, 45–47 contextualism, 104–7 continuity, 33–36; and discontinuity, 8 context, 35–36, 48, 66, 104; of discovery and justification, 110 convention, 25, 49, 50 culture, 49 Danisch, Robert, 4, 10, 58 Dawkins, Richard, 120–21 Declaration of Independence, 173–75 decorum, 180–85, 208–9 democracy, 19, 68–73, 135, 164, 177–78, 189; communitarian, 12–13; radical 1, 73, 126, 187; rhetorical versus as unstable, 23–24 Derrida, 27 detachment, 177 Dewey, John: and China, 59; as Christian idealist, 18, 131, 133–34, 168–69; criticism of American politics, 7; explicit writing on rhetoric, 8–10, 133; metaphysics of, 34; as naïve optimist 6–7; on Plato, 24; as poet, 11 INDEX 222 index discipline, 58 discourse, 47 discussion, 7, 135 doubt, 103 drama, 21–22, 33, 95, 155, 175, 178 dualism, 28, 32, 39, 46, 82, 94, 97, 105, 146, 156 education, 58, 65, 124, 153 Ellul, Jacques, 2, 54–56, 59 eloquence, 168–77, 187 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 132–34, 144 emotion, 51–53, 147–48, 155–56 end-in-view, 114 enthymeme, 88, 188 epideictic speech, 172–73 ethics, 73–75; circumstantial versus transcendental , 76–77, 81; four dominant democratic virtues, 18; rationalistic versus utilitarian, 16, as situated judgment , 17 ethos, 4 event, 36–41 experience, 31, 35; and nature, 30–33; types of, 164–65 fact, 117–18 Fahnestock, Jeanne, 121 Farrell, Thomas, 3, 4, 13, 59, 64, 88, 125 Feyerabend, Paul, 108–9, 116 figure, 121 form, 142, 144, 151–54, 178; stages of, 154–55; versus formalistic, 152 forum, 123 Foucault, Michel, 2, 4, 8, 20, 47, 48, 57 Fuller, Steve, 107 Gettysburg Address, 175, 184–85 Goodnight, G. Thomas, 91, 125 Gorgias, 44, 74, 183 Great Depression, 190 Gross, Alan, 83, 93–95, 112–13 growth, 19 Habermas, Jürgen, 63–64, 90–91 habit, 48–53, 58, 60, 98, 103 Hall, Stewart, 57 Hamilton, Edith, 24 Hauser, Gerard, 23, 60 Hickman, Larry, 67 Hobbes, Thomas, 24 home, 169–73, 177, 191 Hume, David, 130 idealism, 14, 73–74 ideals, 188 ideographs, 188–89 imagination, 158–60, 176 imitation, 148 impulse, 50, 53 inquiry, 103, 111–23 insincerity, 44 intelligence, 73–75 jazz, 164 Jefferson, Thomas, 173 judgment, 178 kairos, 15, 20–21, 53–54, 75, 88, 104, 135, 181–85, 209 Keats, John, 176 King Jr., Martin Luther, 175, 193 knowing, 34, 107 Kuhn, Thomas, 118 Latour, Bruno, 36, 68–70, 74–75, 84–85, 127–28 Leff, Michael, 180–81 Lessl, Thomas, 116 lifeworld, 90–91, 107 Lippmann, Walter, 54–55, 69 Locke, John, 130 logic, 80, 84, 102, 146, 165; and rhetoric, 87–89; metaphysical, 84, 87; naturalistic , 96–99; origins of, 86–87 Lyne, John, 121, 122 Madison, James, 24 manipulation, 23, 139, 166, 180, 188 index 223 mass society, 53–56, 63 materialism, 14 McCarthy, Joseph, 29–30 McGee, Michael Calvin, 54, 60, 198 McGuire, J. E., 91, 103 media, 109, 112, 116, 120–21 Michelangelo, 141–42, 161, 74 Mill, John Stewart, 6, 64 mind, 45–46, 48, 97 music, 160–61, 164 natality, 192 naturalism, 30, 147, 154 nature, 26...