Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice

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AAUP. See American Association of University Professors ABC of Color, An (Du Bois), 136 Adamic, Lada, 196 Addams, Jane: and Chicago Pullman Strike, 109, 110; Dewey’s debate (1894) with, on value of antagonism, 108–11; Dewey’s debate (1917) with, on World War I, 21, 107, 108, 111, 113–20, 241; Dewey’s friendship with, 108, 115, 117, 119, 120, 121; on ends vs. means, 111, 116–17, 119; fame of, 107–8, 112–13; and Hull House, 108, 109, 119; impact of World War I on, 118–21; influence of, on Dewey, 110–11, 120–21, 137, 138n13; influence of, on Du Bois, 137, 138n13; on men’s relationship to war, 118, 121n2; Nobel Peace Prize for, 106; pacifism of, 106–8, 111–20; pragmatism of, 106, 115, 117, 120–21; and Progressive Party, 107; writings by, 107–8 “Address at the Dedication of the Abraham Lincoln Center, Chicago, 1905” (Addams), 113–14, 117 adult learners. See critical pedagogy aesthetics: Certeau on, 14; communication and art, 135, 138n12, 164–65; and cultural criticism, 165–67, 171; definition of, 165; and democratic culture, 15; and ethics, 49, 59–60, 62; and human relations, 171; and orientation, 49; rhetorical aesthetics, 14–17 African Americans: Addams’ advocacy for, 108; Baldwin on, 160–62, 169–72; Carlyle on, 128, 137n6; citizenship of, 160–62, 169; and civil rights movement, 235; Dewey on, 130–31, 169; Du Bois on, 128–36; education of, 21, 128–37, 245–46; higher education for, 128, 129, 130, 134–36, 138n11; improvisation in music of, 169–70; industrial education for, 128, 129–30, 134; intellectual tradition of, 126; lynching of, 129, 138n7; public sphere of, 169–71; racism against, 130–34, 159–62, 167–69; “Talented Tenth” of, 128, 137n5 After Virtue (MacIntyre), 2 Agamben, Georgio, 234, 238 agency: power of social agency, 19; progressive education and individual agency, 226, 227–31, 231n2 aim, 184 Alexander, Lillian A., 135 Alexander, Thomas, 56 Alliance of Rhetoric Societies (ARS), 247n4 Alridge, Derrick, 126, 128 American Association of University Professors , 107 American Evasion of Philosophy, The (West), 88 “American Intellectual Frontier, The” (Dewey), 68–71 American People’s College, 135 American People’s School, 135 antagonism, 108–11, 115 Antioch Review, 76–77 apodeixis (demonstration), 197 Aquinas, Thomas, 220 argumentation: agonistic assumptions of, 219, 222, 224–25, 228; definition of argument, 219, 221; jurisprudential analogy for, 198; progressive pedagogy for teaching of, 217–32; textbooks on, 217–25, 228; types of arguments, 228–29 index 254 Index Argumentation and Public Discussion (Dewey), 35 Aristotle: on atechnic/entechnic (inartistic/ artistic) binary, 22, 196, 197–98, 207, 211; on facts, 196; on phronesis (practical judgments), 9; on poetics, 16; on rhetoric, 7, 16, 187, 196, 197; Sophists compared with, 178; on tragedy, 242 Aronowitz, Stanley, 179, 181–82 arrangement, 40, 41, 163, 169 ARS. See Alliance of Rhetoric Societies (ARS) art. See aesthetics Art as Experience (Dewey), 6, 14, 16, 48–50, 60, 138n12, 164–67, 171, 242 art of living, 59–62 Art of Public Speaking, The (Lucas), 206 artistic proofs (entechnic pisteis), 197, 198 “Artist’s Struggle for Integrity, The” (Baldwin ), 170 “arts of becoming,” 7, 9–10 Asen, Robert, 18, 78–79 atechnoi pisteis. See inartistic proofs Atlanta Constitution, 129 Atlanta University, 129, 135, 138n10 “Atlanta Years” (Du Bois), 129 Attitudes toward History (Burke), 48 Augustine, 220 Aune, James, 20 Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois (Du Bois), 127, 134 Bacon, Francis, 220 Baldwin, David, 167–68 Baldwin, James: on art, 170; on bicentennial narrative and white heroic mythology, 159, 167–71; cultural criticism by, 166–72; on democratic love, 171–72; as Deweyan critic, 165; father of, 167–68; on freedom, 159–60, 167–69; on God’s wrath, 171; and overthrow of existing political system, 172n2; on race and racism, 159–62, 167–72; on radical democracy, 21, 160–62, 166–72. See also specific writings Balfour, Lawrie, 159–60 “banking” concept of education, 179, 217–18 Barger, Jorn, 204 Barthes, Roland, 227 Bean, John C., 205 Beardsley, Monroe, 45n1 Belman, Lary S., 66 Benkler, Yochai, 196 Bennington College, 54 Benoit-Barné, Chantal, 245 Benson, Lee, 107 Berlin, James, 228 Bernanke, Ben, 208 Bessette, Joseph M., 101 Bethune, Mary McLeod, 126 “Bible and Its Enemies, The” (Bryan), 65 bicentennial narrative, 159, 167–70 Biesecker, Barbara, 161 Billings, Simone, 217, 219, 221, 223–25, 228 biopolitics, 233, 234, 237–38, 241 Bitzer, Lloyd, 50, 148 Black Flame, The (Du Bois), 135 Black Reconstruction (Du Bois), 135 blacks...