Making the Case
Advocacy and Judgment in Public Argument
Will be published approx. on 1. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
276 pages
978-1-61186-052-8 (ISBN)
Description
In an era when the value of the humanities and qualitative inquiry has been questioned in academia and beyond, Making the Case is an engaging and timely collection that brings together a veritable who's who of public address scholars to illustrate the power of case-based scholarly argument and to demonstrate how critical inquiry into a specific moment speaks to general contexts and theories. Providing both a theoretical framework and a wealth of historically situated texts, Making the Case spans from Homeric Greece to twenty-first-century America. The authors examine the dynamic interplay of texts and their concomitant rhetorical situations by drawing on a number of case studies, including controversial constitutional arguments put forward by activists and presidents in the nineteenth century, inventive economic pivots by Franklin Roosevelt and Alan Greenspan, and the rhetorical trajectory and method of Barack Obama.
Reviews / Votes
Making the Case offers examples of why careful, case-based, prudential criticism leads to scholarship that is wise and ennobling.-Stephen John Hartnett, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado-Denver
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Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61186-052-8 (9781611860528)
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Kathryn M. Olson | Michael William Pfau | Benjamin Ponder
Making the Case
Advocacy and Judgment in Public Argument
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Michigan State University Press
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Persons
Kathryn M. Olson is Professor of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
Benjamin Ponder is an executive in the educational software industry.
Michael William Pfau is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, USA.
Kirt H. Wilson is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Benjamin Ponder is an executive in the educational software industry.
Michael William Pfau is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, USA.
Kirt H. Wilson is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Content
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Reflections on Making the Case | David Zarefsky
The Beginnings of Oratorical Consciousness: Restarting Time in Homer's Odyssey, The Telemachy | G. Thomas Goodnight
Lysander Spooner's The Unconstitutionality of Slavery: A Case Study in Constitutional Hermeneutics, Ethical Argument, and Practical Reason | James Jasinski
Kind Persuasion: Lincoln's Temperance Address and the Ethos of Civic Friendship | Michael Leff
Andrew Johnson's Fight for States' Rights on the Battlements of the Constitution | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
No End Save Victory: FDR and the End of Isolationism, 1936-1941 | John M. Murphy
Iraq as a Representative Anecdote for Leadership: Barack Obama's Address on the Fifth Anniversary of the Iraq War | Denise M. Bostdorff
Barack Obama's 2009 Inaugural Address: Narrative Signature and Interpretation | Martin J. Medhurst
To Exist, You Need an Ideology: Alan Greenspan on Markets, Crisis, and Democracy | Robert Asen
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Reflections on Making the Case | David Zarefsky
The Beginnings of Oratorical Consciousness: Restarting Time in Homer's Odyssey, The Telemachy | G. Thomas Goodnight
Lysander Spooner's The Unconstitutionality of Slavery: A Case Study in Constitutional Hermeneutics, Ethical Argument, and Practical Reason | James Jasinski
Kind Persuasion: Lincoln's Temperance Address and the Ethos of Civic Friendship | Michael Leff
Andrew Johnson's Fight for States' Rights on the Battlements of the Constitution | Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
No End Save Victory: FDR and the End of Isolationism, 1936-1941 | John M. Murphy
Iraq as a Representative Anecdote for Leadership: Barack Obama's Address on the Fifth Anniversary of the Iraq War | Denise M. Bostdorff
Barack Obama's 2009 Inaugural Address: Narrative Signature and Interpretation | Martin J. Medhurst
To Exist, You Need an Ideology: Alan Greenspan on Markets, Crisis, and Democracy | Robert Asen
Contributors