TY - BOOK AU - Honig,Bonnie TI - Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair T2 - Thinking Out Loud Series SN - 9780823276431 AV - JC423.H665 2017 U1 - 321.8 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - Democracy--Philosophy KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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) UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4821738 ER -