American Mourning

Klappentext Concerned with tragedy! loss! and resilience! American Mourning will be of interest to political theorists! and scholars/students in American studies! history! race! rhetoric! philosophy! theater! and international relations. The book considers public mourning as a lens for analyzing and addressing the problems of contemporary democratic life and politics. Zusammenfassung Concerned with tragedy! loss! and resilience! American Mourning will be of interest to political theorists! and scholars/students in American studies! history! race! rhetoric! philosophy! theater! and international relations. The book considers public mourning as a lens for analyzing and addressing the problems of contemporary democratic life and politics.

Auteur

Simon Stow is an Associate Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary, where he teaches classes in the history of, and topics in, political thought. Simon is the author of Republic of Readers? The Literary Turn in Political Thought and Analysis (2007), which was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He co-edited A Political Companion to John Steinbeck (2013) and has published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Political Thought, Perspectives of Politics, and Theory and Event.

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This insightful study employs public mourning as a lens to identify and address the shortcomings of American democracy.

Résumé
Concerned with tragedy, loss, and resilience, American Mourning will be of interest to political theorists, and scholars/students in American studies, history, race, rhetoric, philosophy, theater, and international relations. The book considers public mourning as a lens for analyzing and addressing the problems of contemporary democratic life and politics.

Contenu

1. Pericles at Gettysburg and Ground Zero: tragedy, patriotism, and public mourning; 2. A homegoing for Mrs King: on the democratic value of African American responses to loss; 3. Mourning bin Laden: Aeschylus, victory, and the democratic necessity of political humanism; 4. Homecoming and reconstitution: nostalgia, mourning, and military return; 5. Mourning as democratic resilience: going on together in the face of loss.