| Description |
1 online resource (248 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Pericles at Gettysburg and Ground Zero: tragedy, patriotism, and public mourning -- A homegoing for Mrs. King: on the democratic value of African American responses to loss -- Mourning bin Laden: Aeschylus, victory, and the democratic necessity of political humanism -- Homecoming and reconstitution: nostalgia, mourning, and military return -- Mourning as democratic resilience: going on together in the face of loss |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- United States
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Democracy -- United States
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Bereavement -- Political aspects -- United States
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Grief -- Political aspects -- United States
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Collective memory -- Political aspects -- United States
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Democracy
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Nationalism
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316662632 |
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1316662632 |
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