Public Things : Democracy in Disrepair.
Honig, Bonnie.
Public Things : Democracy in Disrepair. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (161 pages) - Thinking Out Loud Series . - Thinking Out Loud Series .
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).
9780823276431
Democracy--Philosophy.
Electronic books.
JC423.H665 2017
321.8
Public Things : Democracy in Disrepair. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (161 pages) - Thinking Out Loud Series . - Thinking Out Loud Series .
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).
9780823276431
Democracy--Philosophy.
Electronic books.
JC423.H665 2017
321.8