Argumentation and Advocacy articles from January 2002

Argumentation and Advocacy archives from January 2002

Rhetorical traction: Definitions and institutional arguments in judicial opinions about wilderness access.
January 1, 2002... Almost every spring for the past eight years, I made a phone call to Maryland in order to get into Minnesota. An office in Maryland houses the reservation system for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a one-million acre preserve in the...

Bioethics: A "New" prudence for an emergent paradigm?
January 1, 2002... Stephen Toulmin has pioneered what is by now a familiar view of medicine as a fundamentally moral enterprise. Argumentation theorists will recognize Toulmin's (1981) attention to bioethical discourse that attends value-laden medical practice as...

Queering the public sphere: Liberalism and the rhetoric of rights. (Review Essay).
January 1, 2002... Liberalism and the rhetoric of rights have come under fire in recent decades as a range of feminist, queer, communitarian, and critical political theorists have questioned the kinds and quality of justice that an exclusive concern with rights...

Minding the Law: How Courts Rely On Storytelling, and How Their Stories Change the Way We Understand the Law-and Ourselves. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Minding the Law: How Courts Rely On Storytelling, and How Their Stories Change the Way We Understand the Law-and Ourselves. By Anthony C. Amsterdam and Jerome Bruner. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000; PP. 453. $35.00. At a...

The Modern Presidency and Civil Rights: Rhetoric on Race From Roosevelt to Nixon. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... The Modern Presidency and Civil Rights: Rhetoric on Race From Roosevelt to Nixon. By Garth E. Pauley. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2001; PP. vii + 259. $39.95. No American social problem has been more intractable than...

Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial. By Gary Alan Fine. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001; pp. 262. $19.00 paper. The lesson of Gary Alan Fine's Difficult Reputations can be phrased...

Rhetoric as Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Rhetoric as Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression. By Davis W. Houck, College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press, 2001; pp. xii + 226. $39.95. Although many rhetorical critics flee from language that is bogged in statistics,...

Lincoln Seen and Heard. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Lincoln Seen and Heard. By Harold Holzer. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000; pp. 240. $ 29.95. Harold Holzer's Lincoln Seen and Heard represents a unique union of two largely disparate strands of rhetorical inquiry. The first,...

Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature. By Peter Brooks. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000; pp. x + 207. $24.00. I began reading Peter Brooks' Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature...

By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections. (Book Reviews).
January 1, 2002... By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy Through Deliberative Elections. By John Gastil. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000; pp. 275. $48.00; paper $18.95. "This time has so thoroughly disgusted me with...