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Mario Feit - Democratic Anxieties - 9780739149867 - V9780739149867
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Democratic Anxieties

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Description for Democratic Anxieties Hardback. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 481.
Democratic Anxieties: Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship proceeds from the surprising parallels between straight and gay opponents of same-sex marriage. With their apocalyptic rhetoric they inadvertently point to a frequently neglected, existential dimension of democratic citizenship. Democratic Anxieties argues that we must pay attention to the existential significance of democratic citizenship, because otherwise we end up with anxious democracy-a democracy that cannot fully embrace pluralism, especially when the connections between sex, death, and citizenship are at stake. This book pursues a less anxious conception of democratic citizenship in chapters on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hannah Arendt, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Feit reveals how ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739149867
SKU
V9780739149867
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
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99-15

About Mario Feit
Mario Feit is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University.

Reviews for Democratic Anxieties
Feit discovers heteronormativity in Rousseau's account of citizenship, suggesting he employs unease about death as a way to direct the sexuality of citizens toward reproduction, which allows the community to continue and to express consent. Feit's Hannah Arendt rejects this heteronormativity but does not overcome the anxiety about death that gives rise to it, thus leaving entire areas of life ... Read more

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