Rhetorical Democracy

Robert Danisch is professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

• Chapter 1: The Rhetorical Structures at the Systemic Root of Democracy Chapter 2: Democratic Rhetorical Structures and Political Cultures of ConnectionChapter 3: Anti-Democratic Rhetorical Structures and Political Cultures of DisconnectionChapter 4: Rhetorical Citizenship and the Practice of Democracy as a Way of Life

Living Democracy represents an admirable addition to our reflections on what ails democracy—and how we are to fix it. It is unique in merging a care for our communication ecologies with a call for individual action, revealing how democracy is both something larger than each citizen and an intensely personal way of life to be maintained by each and all.