The Democratic Arts of Mourning

Political Theory and Loss

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy
Cover of the book The Democratic Arts of Mourning by Charles Fred Alford, Osman Balkan, Shirin S. Deylami, Bonnie Honig, Vicki Hsueh, Steven Johnston, Claudia Leeb, Heather Pool, Joel Schlosser, Simon Stow, David Myer Temin, Lexington Books
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Author: Charles Fred Alford, Osman Balkan, Shirin S. Deylami, Bonnie Honig, Vicki Hsueh, Steven Johnston, Claudia Leeb, Heather Pool, Joel Schlosser, Simon Stow, David Myer Temin ISBN: 9781498567251
Publisher: Lexington Books Publication: January 21, 2019
Imprint: Lexington Books Language: English
Author: Charles Fred Alford, Osman Balkan, Shirin S. Deylami, Bonnie Honig, Vicki Hsueh, Steven Johnston, Claudia Leeb, Heather Pool, Joel Schlosser, Simon Stow, David Myer Temin
ISBN: 9781498567251
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication: January 21, 2019
Imprint: Lexington Books
Language: English

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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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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