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Democratic Anxieties - Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship (Hardcover)
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Democratic Anxieties - Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship (Hardcover)
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Democratic Anxieties: Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship
proceeds from the surprising parallels between straight and gay
opponents of same-sex marriage. With their apocalyptic rhetoric
they inadvertently point to a frequently neglected, existential
dimension of democratic citizenship. Democratic Anxieties argues
that we must pay attention to the existential significance of
democratic citizenship, because otherwise we end up with anxious
democracy-a democracy that cannot fully embrace pluralism,
especially when the connections between sex, death, and citizenship
are at stake. This book pursues a less anxious conception of
democratic citizenship in chapters on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hannah
Arendt, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Feit reveals how Rousseau
diminishes democratic citizenship by linking it to existential
consolation via sexual reproduction. He interprets Arendt as a
queer theorist, because she rejects the heteronormative pursuit of
reproductive immortality. Yet, the hope for immortality persists
within Arendt's conception of political action, which delimits its
democratic potential. Feit argues that Nietzsche resists both
Rousseau's political idealization of heterosexuality and Arendt's
anxious alternative. Calling for an affirmation of death,
Nietzsche, creatively reimagines sexual as well as cultural
reproduction, that is, pluralizes democratic citizenship. The
resulting, more existentially aware democratic politics not only
contributes to lesbian and gay equality, but is also critical in a
post-September 11 world.
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