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The Democratic Arts of Mourning
Political Theory and Loss
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2019
Summary
The Democratic Arts of Mourning reflects on the variety of ways in which mourning affects political and social life. In recent decades, political theorists have increasingly examined and explored the themes of loss, grief, and mourning. With an introduction that contextualizes the turn to mourning in previous scholarship on the politics of tragedy, this book includes twelve chapters that clarify the intertwinement between politics and mourning. The chapters are organized into five thematic sections that each shed light on how democratic societies relate to loss, grief, suffering, and death. Collectively, the chapters explore the concept of mourning and its relationship to civic rituals, memorials, taboos, social movements, and popular music. Chapters examine how social groups defend their members against experiences of grief or mourning, or how poetic expressions—such as ancient Greek tragedy—can address the catastrophes of human life. Other chapters explore the politics of symbols and bodies, and how they can become fraught objects that stand in for a society’s undigested—unmourned—losses and absences. The book concludes with an interview with Bonnie Honig, whose own work on mourning has been deeply influential in contemporary political theory.
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Copyright year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-6724-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-6725-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
224
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Introduction No access
1 Groups Can Hardly Mourn No access Pages 1 - 12
2 Must We Always Mourn? A War on Terror Veterans Memorial No access Pages 13 - 40
3 Removing the Confederate Flag in South Carolina in the Wake of Charleston No access Pages 41 - 64
4 Mourning Denied No access Pages 65 - 82
5 Not in My Graveyard No access Pages 83 - 102
6 Reparations, Refusals, and Grief No access Pages 103 - 122
7 Burning Rage No access Pages 123 - 140
8 The Funeral and the Riot No access Pages 141 - 166
9 Music, Mourning, and Democratic Resilience No access Pages 167 - 186
