Beyond Civility – The Competing Obligations of Citizenship Keith Danisch

Beyond CivilityThe Competing Obligations of Citizenship\nAuthor(s): William Keith, Robert Danisch\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271088044, 978-0271088044\nSynopsis\nFrom the pundits to the polls, nearly everyone seems to agree that US politics have rarely been more fractious, and calls for a return to civil discourse abound. Yet it is also true that the requirements of polite discourse effectively silence those who are not in power, gaming the system against the disenfranchised. What, then, should a democracy do?\n\nThis book makes a case for understanding civility in a different light. Examining the history of the concept and its basis in communication and political theory, William Keith and Robert Danisch present a clear, robust analysis of civil discourse. Distinguishing it from politeness, they claim that civil argument must be redirected from the goal of political comit.