American mourning: tragedy, democracy, resilience

How does the way in which a democratic polity mourn its losses shape its political outcomes? How might it shape those outcomes? American Mourning: Tragedy, Democracy, Resilience answers these questions with a critical study of American public mourning. Employing mourning as a lens through which to v...

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Main Author: Stow, Simon 1970- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2017
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:How does the way in which a democratic polity mourn its losses shape its political outcomes? How might it shape those outcomes? American Mourning: Tragedy, Democracy, Resilience answers these questions with a critical study of American public mourning. Employing mourning as a lens through which to view the shortcomings of American democracy, it offers an argument for a tragic, complex, and critical mode of mourning that it contrasts with the nationalist, romantic, and nostalgic responses to loss that currently dominate and damage the polity. Offering new readings of key texts in Ancient political thought and American political history, it engages debates central to contemporary democratic theory concerned with agonism, acknowledgment, hope, humanism, patriotism, and political resilience. The book outlines new ways of thinking about and responding to terrorism, racial conflict, and the problems of democratic military return.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xii, 234 Seiten
ISBN:9781316610589
9781107158061

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