| Description |
1 online resource (x, 195 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Same-Sex Marriage, Extinction, and Citizenship; 1 Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Anxious Democracy; 2 Hannah Arendt and Political Immortality; 3 Affirming Death: Friedrich Nietzsche on Creating a Future; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Same-sex marriage -- Political aspects -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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Same-sex marriage -- Political aspects
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010053777 |
| ISBN |
9780739149881 |
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0739149881 |
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9786613084668 |
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6613084662 |
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