Nadia Urbinati on populism, representation, and rhetoric: some critical remarks

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Autor(a) principal: Ballacci, Giuseppe
Data de Publicação: 2022
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/78283
Resumo: This paper examines Urbinati’s theory of populism with the aim of bringing to the fore a lacuna in such theory. The lacuna concerns her appreciation of the role of rhetoric in populism and more in general in democracy. If Urbinati’s general understanding of politics recognizes an important role to rhetoric, such recognition is not accompanied by a systematic analysis of what rhetoric is and how it operates. The effects of such deficiency can be appreciated in her theory of populism. On the one hand, her critical account of populism seems to hinge significantly on the kind of rhetoric and more generally of style it adopts, on the other the question of what precisely characterizes such rhetoric and style is left mostly unaddressed. The result is that Urbinati’s account of populism loses some explanatory power, with regards both to the nature of populism and the responses to it.
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spelling Nadia Urbinati on populism, representation, and rhetoric: some critical remarksUrbinatidemocratic theorypolitical representationpopulismHumanidades::Filosofia, Ética e ReligiãoThis paper examines Urbinati’s theory of populism with the aim of bringing to the fore a lacuna in such theory. The lacuna concerns her appreciation of the role of rhetoric in populism and more in general in democracy. If Urbinati’s general understanding of politics recognizes an important role to rhetoric, such recognition is not accompanied by a systematic analysis of what rhetoric is and how it operates. The effects of such deficiency can be appreciated in her theory of populism. On the one hand, her critical account of populism seems to hinge significantly on the kind of rhetoric and more generally of style it adopts, on the other the question of what precisely characterizes such rhetoric and style is left mostly unaddressed. The result is that Urbinati’s account of populism loses some explanatory power, with regards both to the nature of populism and the responses to it.Czech Academy of Sciences. Institute of PhilosophyUniversidade do MinhoBallacci, Giuseppe2022-102022-10-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/78283eng0015-18312570-9232https://filcasop.flu.cas.cz/en/special-issuesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:09:14Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/78283Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:00:36.480827Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title Nadia Urbinati on populism, representation, and rhetoric: some critical remarks
spellingShingle Nadia Urbinati on populism, representation, and rhetoric: some critical remarks
Ballacci, Giuseppe
Urbinati
democratic theory
political representation
populism
Humanidades::Filosofia, Ética e Religião
title_short Nadia Urbinati on populism, representation, and rhetoric: some critical remarks
title_full Nadia Urbinati on populism, representation, and rhetoric: some critical remarks
title_fullStr Nadia Urbinati on populism, representation, and rhetoric: some critical remarks
title_full_unstemmed Nadia Urbinati on populism, representation, and rhetoric: some critical remarks
title_sort Nadia Urbinati on populism, representation, and rhetoric: some critical remarks
author Ballacci, Giuseppe
author_facet Ballacci, Giuseppe
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Ballacci, Giuseppe
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Urbinati
democratic theory
political representation
populism
Humanidades::Filosofia, Ética e Religião
topic Urbinati
democratic theory
political representation
populism
Humanidades::Filosofia, Ética e Religião
description This paper examines Urbinati’s theory of populism with the aim of bringing to the fore a lacuna in such theory. The lacuna concerns her appreciation of the role of rhetoric in populism and more in general in democracy. If Urbinati’s general understanding of politics recognizes an important role to rhetoric, such recognition is not accompanied by a systematic analysis of what rhetoric is and how it operates. The effects of such deficiency can be appreciated in her theory of populism. On the one hand, her critical account of populism seems to hinge significantly on the kind of rhetoric and more generally of style it adopts, on the other the question of what precisely characterizes such rhetoric and style is left mostly unaddressed. The result is that Urbinati’s account of populism loses some explanatory power, with regards both to the nature of populism and the responses to it.
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