In Defense of Partisan Criticism

Communication Studies, Law, & Social Analysis

• Author(s): Omar Swartz,
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Pages: 292
• ISBN_10: 0820469408
  ISBN_13: 9780820469409
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies , Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism , Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric , Law / General , Law / Jurisprudence , Philosophy / Political , Political Science / History & Theory , Political Science / Political Process / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / General , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... In Defense of Partisan Criticism is a far-reaching exploration of the legal, philosophical, and rhetorical basis for understanding social justice in the United States. Through a thoughtful investigation of key political, social, and legal events in the history of the United States, Omar Swartz develops a compelling argument for engaged political scholarship by American academics, and offers readers a critical understanding of the place of race and class in American cultural history. Central to this understanding is an awareness of the «communication imagination» - the power of citizens to name the constraints placed upon them by U.S. political and legal institutions and to counter those constraints with narratives constructing a more socially just society based upon a wider sense of human identification and partisan engagement than is currently practiced in the normative U.S. public sphere.