Trained capacities : John Dewey, rhetoric, and democratic practice / edited by Brian Jackson and Gregory Clark.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Dewey and democratic practice -- -- science, pragmatism, religion -- Dewey on science, deliberation, and the sociology of rhetoric / William Keith and Robert Danisch -- John Dewey, Kenneth Burke, and the role of orientation in rhetoric / Scott R. Stroud -- Minister of democracy -- -- John Dewey, religious rhetoric, and the great community / Paul Stob -- Dewey and his interlocutors -- -- Thomas Jefferson, Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter Lippmann, James Baldwin -- Dewey on Jefferson -- -- reiterating democratic faith in times of war / Jeremy Engels -- John Dewey and Jane Addams debate war / Louise W. Knight -- John Dewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and a rhetoric of education / Keith Gilyard -- Walter Lippmann, the indispensable opposition / Jean Goodwin -- "All safety is an illusion" -- -- John Dewey, James Baldwin, and the democratic practice of public critique / Walton Muyumba -- Dewey as teacher of rhetoric -- Rhetoric and Dewey's experimental pedagogy / Nathan Crick -- The art of the inartistic, in publics digital or otherwise / Brian Jackson, Meridith Reed, and Jeff Swift -- Dewey's progressive pedagogy for rhetorical instruction -- -- teaching argument in a nonfoundational framework / Donald C. Jones -- the possibilities for Dewey amid the angst of paradigm change / Gerard A. Hauser.

The essays in this collection 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 and Gregory Clark propose that this influence is at work both in theoretical foundations, such as science, pragmatism, and religion, and in Dewey's debates with other public intellectuals, such as Jane Addams, Walter Lippmann, James Baldwin, and W.E.B. Du Bois. Jackson and Clark seek to establish Dewey as an essential source for those engaged in teaching others how to compose timely, appropriate, useful, and eloquent responses to the diverse and often-contentious rhetorical situations that develop in a democratic culture. What prepares people to intervene constructively in such situations is instruction in those rhetorical practices of democratic interaction that is implicit throughout Dewey's work. Dewey's writing provides a rich framework on which a distincly American tradition of a democratic rhetorical practice can be built - a tradition that combines the most useful concepts of classical rhetoric with those of modern progressive civic engagement. Jackson and Clark believe Dewey's practice takes rhetoric beyond the traditional emphasis on political democracy to provide connections to rich veins of American thought such as individualism, liberalism, progressive education, collectivism, pragmatism, and postindustrial science and communication. They frame Dewey's work as constituting a modern expression of continuing education for the "trained capacities" required to participate in democratic culture. --

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