The Deliberative Sublime: Edmund Burke on Disruptive Speech and Imaginative Judgment

Goodman, Rob

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“…Deliberation could, thus, be emotional; it could involve the use of rhetoric, storytelling, humour, testimony, greetings and so on (Gormley, 2019). Goodman (2018) even advocated 'unruly and excessive' speech in cases in which it had the capacity to disrupt the negative effects of the norms of civility. However, all this produced a backlash.…”

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Deliberative democracy in the age of serial crisis

Curato

Sass

Ercan

et al. 2020

International Political Science Review

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What is the state of deliberative democracy in the age of serial crisis? This survey article provides a descriptive and reflective assessment of recent developments in the field in the light of a political context in which there is growing incivility, political polarization, normalization of disinformation and the growing appeal of finding simplistic solutions to complex problems. We describe deliberative democracy as a field of research that has evolved to become (a) assertive in practice, (b) precise in theory, (c) global in reach and (d) ambitious in empirical research. For each of these facets of deliberative democracy, we reflect on the extent to which the field has responded to conceptual, empirical and political challenges, and identify its shortcomings, which warrant further attention. We conclude by drawing attention to research imperatives that the field needs to address to remain relevant in a highly unequal, climate-challenged and increasingly fragile global public sphere.

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Deliberative democracy in the age of serial crisis

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Ercan

et al. 2020

International Political Science Review

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“…These deficits are more in pronounced today's multimedia saturated societies, where power lies not in who has the loudest voice or the best reasons, but who gets to hold audiences' fleeting attention spans. Interruptive protest is one way to redistribute attention through creative and sometimes sublime forms of speech (see Goodman, 2018). If successful, interruption can transform 'baited' attention to sustained and consequential deliberation where marginal claims can take part.…”

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“…When a deliberative system overly relies on familiar or ‘sensible’ practices of argumentation, it gives the impression that politics is ‘exaggeratedly stable’ (Goodman, 2018: 274). Protests are interruptive as far as they challenge the stability of the deliberative system.…”

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“…The cases of the Philippines and Puerto Rico offer important lessons for deliberative democracy and protest politics. First, these cases illustrate the ‘necessary place within settled institutions for unsettling and uncanny speech’ (Goodman, 2018: 268). By offering this argument, I hope to have provided clarity on the precise consequences of interruptive protests that can expose and subsequently mend a dysfunctional deliberative system.…”

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Interruptive protests in dysfunctional deliberative systems

Curato

2020

Politics

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The field of deliberative democracy has long recognised the role of interruptive protests to make polities more sensitive to good reasons. But how exactly interruptive protests enhance deliberative systems remain an open question. ‘Non-deliberative acts may have deliberative consequences’ is a crucial line of argument in the deliberative systems literature, but the precise character of these consequences is yet to be spelled out. In this article, I describe three ways in which consequences of interruptive protests enhance the deliberative system. I argue that interruptive protests can redistribute (1) voice and visibility, (2) attention, and (3) deliberative agency which, in turn, can lay bare the weaknesses of a dysfunctional deliberative system. The arguments I put forward are based on interpretive case studies focusing on protest movements in the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of record-breaking hurricanes. Overall, this paper seeks to clarify the relationship between deliberative politics and protest action, by identifying the distinctive contributions of interruptive protests in redistributing power in dysfunctional deliberative systems.

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“…The criticism that deliberative democrats either neglect rhetoric or simply presume its motivational effects is a recurring theme in the "rhetoric revival" literature (seeAbizadeh 2007;Garsten 2009;Goodman 2018). …”

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“This Hearing Should Be Flipped”: Democratic Spectatorship, Social Media, and the Problem of Demagogic Candor

Litvin

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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How concerning should it be that most citizens encounter political life chiefly as audiences? Facing this fact, democratic theorists increasingly respond by reconceptualizing “the spectator” as an empowered agent. Yet this response risks overlooking how evolving forms of media reconstitute audiences in ways that undermine efforts to ascribe agency to any given spectating activity. To illustrate this problem, I consider Jeffrey Green’s idealization of candor, which holds spectators to be empowered when leaders are denied scripted appearances. In contrast, I show that social media occasion a case of irreverent candor wherein spectators claim authenticity by derailing online conversations, thereby valorizing a kind of unscriptedness that perpetuates outgroup marginalization and facilitates demagogy. Paradoxically, such candor disempowers spectators while rendering them more “active” agents. I thus argue that empowerment requires audiences to interrogate their own spectating practices—a possibility I locate in Hannah Arendt’s thought and interactions surrounding Black Lives Matter protests.

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The Deliberative Sublime: Edmund Burke on Disruptive Speech and Imaginative Judgment

Cited by 23 publications

References 48 publications

Deliberative democracy in the age of serial crisis

Deliberative democracy in the age of serial crisis

Interruptive protests in dysfunctional deliberative systems

“This Hearing Should Be Flipped”: Democratic Spectatorship, Social Media, and the Problem of Demagogic Candor

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