[This book] engages many of the theory's important statements and persistent problems, and offers a ... reformulation of discursive agency by drawing on the tradition of rhetorie. [The book offers] contribution to both political and rhetorical studies.-Dust jacket.
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"In their efforts to uncover the principles of a robust conception of democracy, theorists of deliberative democracy place a premium on the role of political expression - public speech and reasoned debate - as the key to democratic processes. They also frequently hark back to hi…
These treatises offer important insight into such matters as the extent of the king's power in the fourteenth century and earlier, the relationship between church and state, and the particular duties of the ruler toward various of his subjects.