American Mourning: Tragedy, Democracy, Resilience

ISBN-13: 9781316610589 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 244 str.

Simon Stow

Opis

This insightful study employs public mourning as a lens to identify and address the shortcomings of American democracy.

Recenzje

'The dead are politically active, so Stow argues in this beautifully written book. Stories of loss and death shape living politics, and can even revitalize moribund democratic practices. Offering fresh interpretations of key political moments of mourning, from ancient Greece to the civil rights movement to post-9/11 politics, Stow defines mourning as a democratic practice that can generate collective commitment and inspire public responsibility. Rarely has a book on mourning and tragedy been so viscerally energizing. It should be required reading for anyone invested in democratic political thought today.' Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University and author of Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom

Spis treści

1. Pericles at Gettysburg and Ground Zero: tragedy, patriotism, and public mourning; 2. A homegoing for Mrs King: on the democratic value of African American responses to loss; 3. Mourning bin Laden: Aeschylus, victory, and the democratic necessity of political humanism; 4. Homecoming and reconstitution: nostalgia, mourning, and military return; 5. Mourning as democratic resilience: going on together in the face of loss.