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Book SynopsisExplores the reception history of Walter Lippmann's and John Dewey's ideas about publics, communication, and political decision-making and assesses the relevance of these ideas for addressing contemporary crises.
Trade Review“Intrinsic to the tradition of democratic politics is debate over the nature of democracy itself, and Bjørkdahl’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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Lippmann, Dewey, and Democracy in a Hailstorm
Kristian Bjørkdahl
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 Bjørkdahl
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
