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Public Things : Democracy in Disrepair.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Thinking Out Loud SeriesPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (161 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823276431
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Public ThingsDDC classification:
  • 321.8
LOC classification:
  • JC423.H665 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Public Things -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface: Opting Out -- Introduction: Thinging Out Loud -- Lecture One: Democracy's Necessary Conditions -- Lecture Two: Care and Concern: Arendt with Winnicott -- Lecture Three: Hope and Play: Jonathan Lear's Radical Hope and Lars von Trier's Melancholia -- Epilogue: Public Things, Shared Space, and the Commons -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Drawing on Winnicott and Hannah Arendt, Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair develops a lexicon for a political theory of public things. Indigenous activism, racial inequality, and democratic citizenship; care, concern, hope, and play all figure in readings of contemporary events and literary, film, and political theory (Tocqueville, Melville, von Trier).
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Cover -- Public Things -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Preface: Opting Out -- Introduction: Thinging Out Loud -- Lecture One: Democracy's Necessary Conditions -- Lecture Two: Care and Concern: Arendt with Winnicott -- Lecture Three: Hope and Play: Jonathan Lear's Radical Hope and Lars von Trier's Melancholia -- Epilogue: Public Things, Shared Space, and the Commons -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Drawing on Winnicott and Hannah Arendt, Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair develops a lexicon for a political theory of public things. Indigenous activism, racial inequality, and democratic citizenship; care, concern, hope, and play all figure in readings of contemporary events and literary, film, and political theory (Tocqueville, Melville, von Trier).

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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