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The Democratic Arts of Mourning - Political Theory and Loss
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The Democratic Arts of Mourning - Political Theory and Loss
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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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