Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice

by Gregory Clark and Gregory Clark

A collection examining Dewey's influence on effective communication in a healthy democratic practice

The essays in this collection, written by sixteen scholars in rhetoric and communications studies, demonstrate American philosopher John Dewey's wide-ranging influence on rhetoric in an intellectual tradition that addresses the national culture's fundamental conflicts between self and society, freedom and responsibility, and individual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611173183
• ISBN13: 9781611173185
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"