Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice

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 advancement and the common good. Editors Brian Jackson an...