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Civility and Democracy in America

Author : Cornell W. Clayton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874223125
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Civility and Democracy in America written by Cornell W. Clayton and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although many Americans prefer intelligent debate and reasoned arguments, today's political arena is rife with negative personal attacks, outrageous character assassinations, and even violence. Yet incivility has existed in various forms throughout history, often preceding positive change. In March 2011, Washington State University hosted one of four national conferences on the role of civility in American democracy. Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines focused on five distinct perspectives: history, religion, philosophy, art and architecture, and media. Comprised of more than twenty papers presented at that meeting, Civility and Democracy in America examines the meaning of civility and disseminates the insight of these seasoned experts.

Rude Democracy

Author : Susan Herbst
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439903379
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Rude Democracy written by Susan Herbst and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American politics can become more civil and amenable to public policy solutions, while still allowing for effective argument.

Rudeness and Civility

Author : John F. Kasson
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 146680663X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Rudeness and Civility written by John F. Kasson and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century. He describes the transformation of our notion of "gentility," once considered a birthright to some, and the development of etiquette as a middle-class response to the new urban and industrial economy and to the excesses of democratic society.

A Crisis of Civility?

Author : Robert G. Boatright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351051962
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Crisis of Civility? written by Robert G. Boatright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of political discourse in the United States today has been a subject of concern for many Americans. Political incivility is not merely a problem for political elites; political conversations between American citizens have also become more difficult and tense. The 2016 presidential elections featured campaign rhetoric designed to inflame the general public. Yet the 2016 election was certainly not the only cause of incivility among citizens. There have been many instances in recent years where reasoned discourse in our universities and other public venues has been threatened. This book was undertaken as a response to these problems. It presents and develops a more robust discussion of what civility is, why it matters, what factors might contribute to it, and what its consequences are for democratic life. The authors included here pursue three major questions: Is the state of American political discourse today really that bad, compared to prior eras; what lessons about civility can we draw from the 2016 election; and how have changes in technology such as the development of online news and other means of mediated communication changed the nature of our discourse? This book seeks to develop a coherent, civil conversation between divergent contemporary perspectives in political science, communications, history, sociology, and philosophy. This multidisciplinary approach helps to reflect on challenges to civil discourse, define civility, and identify its consequences for democratic life in a digital age. In this accessible text, an all-star cast of contributors tills the earth in which future discussion on civility will be planted.

Against Civility

Author : Alex Zamalin
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807026549
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Against Civility written by Alex Zamalin and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of racial injustice to examine how civility and white supremacy are linked, and a call for citizens who care about social justice to abandon civility and practice civic radicalism The idea and practice of civility has always been wielded to silence dissent, repress political participation, and justify violence upon people of color. Although many progressives today are told that we need to be more polite and thoughtful, less rancorous and angry, when we talk about race in America, civility maintains rather than disrupts racial injustice. Spanning two hundred years, Zamalin’s accessible blend of intellectual history, political biography, and contemporary political criticism shows that civility has never been neutral in its political uses and impacts. The best way to tackle racial inequality is through “civic radicalism,” an alternative to civility found in the actions of Black radical leaders including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and Audre Lorde. Civic radicals shock and provoke people. They name injustice and who is responsible for it. They protest, march, strike, boycott, and mobilize collectively rather than form alliances with those who fundamentally oppose them. In Against Civility, citizens who care deeply about racial and socioeconomic equality will see that they need to abandon this concept of discreet politeness when it comes to racial justice and instead more fully support disruptive actions and calls for liberation, which have already begun with movements like #MeToo, the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, and Black Lives Matter.

Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation

Author : George Washington
Publisher : Bnpublishing.Com
ISBN 13 : 9789562911771
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation written by George Washington and published by Bnpublishing.Com. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How Civility Works

Author : Keith J Bybee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 150360182X
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book How Civility Works written by Keith J Bybee and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[This] thoughtful meditation . . . begins an important conversation about how our discourse can be moral and robust without sacrificing truth or freedom.” —Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Is civility dead? Americans ask this question every election season, but their concern is hardly limited to political campaigns. Doubts about civility regularly arise in just about every aspect of American public life. Rudeness runs rampant. Our news media is saturated with aggressive bluster and vitriol. Our digital platforms teem with trolls and expressions of disrespect. Reflecting these conditions, surveys show that a significant majority of Americans believe we are living in an age of unusual anger and discord. Everywhere we look, there seems to be conflict and hostility, with shared respect and consideration nowhere to be found. In a country that encourages thick skins and speaking one’s mind, is civility even possible, let alone desirable? In How Civility Works, Keith J. Bybee elegantly explores the “crisis” in civility, looking closely at how civility intertwines with our long history of boorish behavior and the ongoing quest for pleasant company. Bybee argues that the very features that make civility ineffective and undesirable also point to civility’s power and appeal. Can we all get along? If we live by the contradictions on which civility depends, then yes, we can, and yes, we should. “[This] slim and artful treatise . . . suggest[s] we continue to fight for civility, but learn to think of it less romantically.” —The New York TimesBook Review “Keith Bybee has delved into the literature of civility and emerged with a clear-eyed and helpful account of politesse. Let us bow.” —Henry Alford, author of Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? A Modern Guide to Manners “This important book shows us why pursuing [civility] is as necessary as it is difficult.” —John Inazu, Comment

In Defense of Civility

Author : James Calvin Davis
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 0664235441
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Civility written by James Calvin Davis and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James Davis provides helpful insight into controversial issues facing twenty-first-century Americans. Even those who disagree with his conclusions will find this a splendid contribution to a more civil public conversation."---Rev. J. Philip Wogaman, Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics. Wesley Theological Seminary. Washington. DC. and author of Moral Dilemmas: An Introduction to Christian Ethics "A gentle and penetrating reminder of the role that religion can play in helping us think through deep problems."---Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet "This broad-minded and intelligent book is a must-read for all who are interested in finding common ground amidst our nation's divisive political, cultural, and religious conflicts."---Dr. David P. Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics. Mercer University. Attanta, Georgia "Davis combines just the right amount of accessibility, historical knowledge, and depth to make this book an excellent and significant contribution to the cavernous collection of literature on religion and public debate."---Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty, Associate Professor of Theology. Bellamine University Louisville. Kentucky, and coeditor with Rebecca Todd Peters of To Do Justice: A Guide for Progressive Christians From abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, and stem-cell research, to war, poverty, and the environment, this timely book considers religion's impact on moral debates in America's past and present. James Calvin Davis argues for religion's potential to enrich both the content and the civility of public conversation. This book will interest all concerned citizens yearning for more careful thinking about the role of religion in public debate.

Civility and Democracy in America

Author : Richard Elgar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781636820958
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Civility and Democracy in America written by Richard Elgar and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Death of Civility and Common Sense

Author : Mike McLeod
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 9781619844698
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book The Death of Civility and Common Sense written by Mike McLeod and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how America has become more polarized than at any time since the American Civil War . The book is timely because we are currently enduring the most divisive presidential election campaign of the last 100 years. The author calls on his first hand experience in over four decades of experience as a senate staff member and then as a Washington lawyer-lobbyist. Since there is no magic formula for the bipartisan functioning of government, he relies on the examples of some great mentors he has had. These include Senator Robert Byrd, who served as Senate Majority Leader, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, And Senator Herman Talmadge, who brought him to Washington, DC. He relates his experiences working in three presidential campaigns, one that was a winning campaign and two that were losing campaigns. during his career he has gotten to know personally ad well as politically leaders in both the senate and the House. About the Author Mike McLeod is a practicing Washington lawyer and lobbyist in the firm, McLeod, Washington, and Miller. He is a passionate gardener and has written a book on blue ridge mountain gardening. His other hobbies include reading history, and running stairs to keep fit.

The Case for Civility

Author : Os Guinness
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006174008X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Case for Civility written by Os Guinness and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world torn apart by religious extremism on the one side and a strident secularism on the other, no question is more urgent than how we live with our deepest differences—especially our religious and ideological differences. The Case for Civility is a proposal for restoring civility in America as a way to foster civility around the world. Influential Christian writer and speaker Os Guinness makes a passionate plea to put an end to the polarization of American politics and culture that—rather than creating a public space for real debate—threatens to reverse the very principles our founders set into motion and that have long preserved liberty, diversity, and unity in this country. Guinness takes on the contemporary threat of the excesses of the Religious Right and the secular Left, arguing that we must find a middle ground between privileging one religion over another and attempting to make all public expression of faith illegal. If we do not do this, Guinness contends, Western civilization as we know it will die. Always provocative and deeply insightful, Guinness puts forth a vision of a new, practical "civil and cosmopolitan public square" that speaks not only to America's immediate concerns but to the long-term interests of the republic and the world.

Civility

Author : Stephen Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Civility written by Stephen Carter and published by . This book was released on 1998-04-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby" and "The Culture of Disbelief" proves that manners matter to the future of America. Not an exercise in abstract philosophizing, this book delivers an agenda for the practical implementation of civility in contemporary life.

Civility in America

Author :
Publisher : DGI Press
ISBN 13 : 0983900728
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Civility in America written by and published by DGI Press. This book was released on 2011-09-18 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mere Civility

Author : Teresa M. Bejan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674545494
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Mere Civility written by Teresa M. Bejan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In liberal democracies committed to tolerating diversity as well as disagreement, the loss of civility in the public sphere seems critical. But is civility really a virtue, or a demand for conformity that silences dissent? Teresa Bejan looks at early modern debates about religious toleration for answers about what a civil society should look like.

The Making of an Imperial Polity

Author : Lauren Working
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108494064
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Making of an Imperial Polity written by Lauren Working and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This significant reassessment of Jacobean political culture reveals how colonizing America transformed English civility in early seventeenth-century England. This title is also available as Open Access.

Choosing Civility

Author : P. M. Forni
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429973986
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Choosing Civility written by P. M. Forni and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people would agree that thoughtful behavior and common decency are in short supply, or simply forgotten in hurried lives of emails, cellphones, and multi-tasking. In Choosing Civility, P. M. Forni identifies the twenty-five rules that are most essential in connecting effectively and happily with others. In clear, witty, and, well...civilized language, Forni covers topics that include: * Think Twice Before Asking Favors * Give Constructive Criticism * Refrain from Idle Complaints * Respect Others' Opinions * Don't Shift Responsibility and Blame * Care for Your Guests * Accept and Give Praise Finally, Forni provides examples of how to put each rule into practice and so make life-and the lives of others-more enjoyable, companionable, and rewarding. Choosing Civility is a simple, practical, perfectly measured, and quietly magical handbook on the lost art of civility and compassion. “Insightful meditation on how changing the way we think can improve our daily lives. ... A deft exploration that urges us to think before speaking.” —Kirkus, Starred Review

Inn Civility

Author : Vaughn Scribner
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479864927
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Inn Civility written by Vaughn Scribner and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive “city taverns” to seedy “disorderly houses,” urban taverns were wholly engrained in the diverse web of British American life. By the mid-eighteenth century, urban taverns emerged as the most popular, numerous, and accessible public spaces in British America. These shared spaces, which hosted individuals from a broad swath of socioeconomic backgrounds, eliminated the notion of “civilized” and “wild” individuals, and dismayed the elite colonists who hoped to impose a British-style social order upon their local community. More importantly, urban taverns served as critical arenas through which diverse colonists engaged in an ongoing act of societal negotiation. Inn Civility exhibits how colonists’ struggles to emulate their British homeland ultimately impelled the creation of an American republic. This unique insight demonstrates the messy, often contradictory nature of British American society building. In striving to create a monarchical society based upon tenets of civility, order, and liberty, colonists inadvertently created a political society that the founders would rely upon for their visions of a republican America. The elitist colonists’ futile efforts at realizing a civil society are crucial for understanding America’s controversial beginnings and the fitful development of American republicanism.