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American Dionysia - Violence, Tragedy, and Democratic Politics (Paperback)
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American Dionysia - Violence, Tragedy, and Democratic Politics (Paperback)
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Violence and tragedy riddle democracy - not due to fatal
shortcomings or unnecessary failures, but because of its very
design and success. To articulate this troubling claim, Steven
Johnston explores the cruelty of democratic founding, the brutal
use democracies make of citizens and animals during wartime, the
ambiguous consequences of legislative action expressive of majority
rule, and militant practices of citizenship required to deal with
democracy's enemies. Democracy must take responsibility for its
success: to rule in denial of violence merely replicates it.
Johnston thus calls for the development of a tragic democratic
politics and proposes institutional and civic responses to
democracy's reign, including the reinvention of tragic festivals
and holidays, a new breed of public memorials, and mandatory
congressional reparations sessions. Theorizing the violent puzzle
of democracy, Johnston addresses classic and contemporary political
theory, films, little known monuments, the subversive music of
Bruce Springsteen, and the potential of democratic violence by the
people themselves.
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