Kristian Bjorkdahl is Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oslo.
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Lippmann, Dewey, and Democracy in a Hailstorm Kristian Bjorkdahl 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 Bjorkdahl 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
"Intrinsic to the tradition of democratic politics is debate over the nature of democracy itself, and Bjorkdahl's volume is a worthy contribution to our perennial deliberations. Its chapters examine the influential democratic theories of two of the most prominent public intellectuals of the twentieth century-philosopher John Dewey and journalist Walter Lippmann-and show how their penetrating analyses can help us navigate the serious challenges facing democracy in the twenty-first century." -William M. Curtis, author of Defending Rorty: Pragmatism and Liberal Virtue