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In the past two decades, democratic political practice has taken a deliberative turn. That is, contemporary democratic politics has become increasingly focused on facilitating citizen participation in the public exchange of reasons. Although the deliberative turn in democratic practice is in several respects welcome, the technological and communicative advances that have facilitated it also make possible new kinds of deliberative democratic pathology. This essay calls attention to and examines new epistemological troubles for public deliberation enacted under contemporary conditions. Drawing from a lesson offered by Lyn Sanders two decades ago, the paper raises the concern that the deliberative turn in democratic practice has counter-democratic effects.
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Among the existing categories of literary essays, the essays of contestation have the role of judging if not condemning certain values of a society. The author has then to convince the reader of the rightfulness of his opinion. The rhétorique de l'extrême is a way for the essayist to present and uphold his vision of the world. By studying Pierre Vadeboncoeur's Trois essais sur l'insignifiance, we will define this rhetoric in order to show how the essays of contestation can be affiliated to a polemical type of discourse.
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This paper summarizes various interpretations of emotional arguments, with a focus on the emotional mode of argument introduced in the multi-modal argumentation model (Gilbert, 1994). From there the author shifts from a descriptive account of emotional arguments to a discussion about a normative framework. Pointing out problems with evaluative models of the emotional mode, a paradigmatic shift captured by the Amenable Argumentation Approach is explained as a way forward for the advancement of the emotional mode and multi-modal argumentation.
Keywords: amenable argumentation approach, argument1, argument2, argumentative multilingualism, conceptual framework, critical-logical model, emotional mode, multi-modal argumentation