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Nonvirtue is Not Apathy

Warrants for Discourse and Citizen Dissent

Florida Atlantic University

The author argues that conditions of subordination limit opportunities for citizen participation and discourse and alter the forms and meanings of each. In her view, open participation in the forms recognized as conventional, virtuous, and authentic is often neither possible nor wise. The author offers James Scott’s work as a potential rejoinder to those who would require virtue of the nonapathetic and as an answer to Fox and Miller’s question, "Why bother attending a discourse where claims are as likely to be counterfeit as authentic?" Using Scott’s analysis of hidden transcripts as a point of theoretical departure, the author explores the impact of Fox and Miller’s warrants for discourse on perceptions of participation and dissent. She suggests that to be more fully inclusive, theorists might reconceptualize the ends of deliberative discourse and reconsider the place of Habermasian warrants in achieving them.

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