American mourning: tragedy, democracy, resilience

by Stow, Simon

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Title Statements

Full title :American mourning : tragedy, democracy, resilience / Simon Stow,....

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" (ed.).

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

The Physical Object

Description:1 vol. (xii-234 pages) ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781107158061 (rel), 1107158060, 9781316610589 (br), 1316610586
oclc:on1162611556
LC Classification:E169.1
Dewey Decimal:320.54/0973

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