TY - CHAP

T1 - Propaedeutics to Action: Vernacular Rhetorical Citizenship – Reflections on and of the Work of Gerard A. Hauser

AU - Villadsen, Lisa Storm

PY - 2016/9/1

Y1 - 2016/9/1

N2 - In this chapter I focus on what I see as a tenor in Hauser’s work, namely rhetoric’s place in the basic schisms characteristic of democratic societies: how to bring together in responsible ways the sometimes conflicting appeals from reason and passion, and how to practice the rule of “the people” when in fact there are major power differences and often a perceived gap in interest, knowledge, and evaluation of issues between the majority and the elite minority. In Hauser’s own words, there are questions to be raised, “questions about the ways that participation is manifested, how opinion is expressed, how we may come to know it” (“Rhetorical Democracy and Civic Engagement” 7). In what follows, we shall track some of Hauser’s own answers to these questions.

AB - In this chapter I focus on what I see as a tenor in Hauser’s work, namely rhetoric’s place in the basic schisms characteristic of democratic societies: how to bring together in responsible ways the sometimes conflicting appeals from reason and passion, and how to practice the rule of “the people” when in fact there are major power differences and often a perceived gap in interest, knowledge, and evaluation of issues between the majority and the elite minority. In Hauser’s own words, there are questions to be raised, “questions about the ways that participation is manifested, how opinion is expressed, how we may come to know it” (“Rhetorical Democracy and Civic Engagement” 7). In what follows, we shall track some of Hauser’s own answers to these questions.

UR - http://pcasite.org/pca-journals/pca-scholar-series

M3 - Book chapter

T3 - Pennsylvania Scholar Series

SP - 47

EP - 63

BT - Gerard A. Hauser. Rhetorical Scholar of the Public Sphere

A2 - Arnett, Ronald C.

PB - Pennsylvania Communication Association

CY - Pittsburgh

ER -