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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Sharon Begley, “Global Warming Is a Hoax,” Newsweek, August 13, 2007, 22. 2. The June 2004 conference date partially explains the contributors’ silence on two seminal climate change events: Hurricane Katrina (August 2005) and the Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth (May 2006). An afterword, however, could have addressed this problem; the failure to include one makes this 2007 book already feel dated. 3. Marc D. Davidson provides support for this suspicion in “Parallels in Reactionary Argumentation in the US Congressional Debates on the Abolition of Slavery and the Kyoto Protocol,” Climatic Change 86 (2008): 67–82. 4. See Kenneth M. Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Antebellum South (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956). 1. I borrow this phrasing from Daniela Baroffio-Bota, “The Female Soldier: Mediating Promises and Problematics of Femininity, War, and the Nation” (PhD diss., University of Southern California, 2006). 2. Susan J. Douglas, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1995), especially chapter 12, “I'm Not a Feminist, But …” 3. For more on the liberatory potential of this kind of thinking, see George Lipsitz's discussion of Parliament Funkadelic's symbolic transcendence of social inequality through the invocation of space age themes (in particular, the mothership) in Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism, and the Poetics of Place (London: Verso, 1994). 4. Cynthia Duquette Smith, “Discipline—It's a ‘Good Thing’: Rhetorical Constitution and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia,” Women's Studies in Communication 23 (2000): 337–66. 5. George Lipsitz, Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990), 80. 1. Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity, trans. Alphonos Lingis (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1961/1969). 2. Levinas, Totality and Infinity, 55. 3. Levinas, Totality and Infinity, 56. 4. Levinas, Totality and Infinity, 281. 1. Friedrich Nietzsche, “On the Genealogy of Morals” (1887), in Basic Writings of Nietzsche, ed. and trans. Walter Kauffman (New York: Modern Library, 1992), 470–92. 2. This point is explored in more detail in Robert L. Ivie, Democracy and America's War on Terror (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005). 3. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (New York: Penguin, 2004), 355. 4. Ivie's recent engagement with “agonistic pluralism” is evident in his “Evil Enemy Versus Agonistic Other: Rhetorical Constructions of Terrorism,” Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 25 (2003): 181–200. 5. Benjamin Rush, “A Plan of a Peace-Office for the United States,” in Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical (Philadelphia: Thomas and Samuel F. Bradford, 1798), 183. 6. Rush, “Plan of a Peace-Office,” 184. 7. Jeffrey Stout, Democracy and Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004); Patrick J. Deneen, Democratic Faith (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). 8. Bryan Garsten, Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), 142. 9. Garsten, Saving Persuasion, 4; see also 41–45. 10. I develop this argument in Jeremy Engels, “Disciplining Jefferson: The Man within the Breast and the Rhetorical Norms of Producing Order,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 9 (2006): 411–35. 1. See Robert Hariman, Prudence: Classical Virtue, Postmodern Practice (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003), 2. 2. Hariman, Prudence, 2–3. For more on the connection between rhetoric and practical wisdom as performative social action see Thomas B. Farrell, Norms of Rhetorical Culture (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993). 3. Hariman, Prudence, 7. 4. Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (South Bend, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1981). 5. For two early examples of Fisher's “narrative paradigm,” see his “Narration as Human Communication Paradigm: The Case of Public Moral Argument,” Communication Monographs 51 (1984): 1–22; and “The Narrative Paradigm: An Elaboration,” Communication Monographs 52 (1985): 347–67.