Public Things : : Democracy in Disrepair / / Bonnie Honig.

In the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political and economic health. State bureaucracy, but not corporate bureaucracy, is seen as inefficient, and privatization is seen as a magic cure for social ills. In Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair, Bonnie Hon...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Thinking Out Loud
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: Opting Out
  • Introduction. Thinging Out Loud
  • Lecture One: Democracy's Necessary Conditions
  • Lecture Two: Care and Concern: Arendt with Winnicott
  • Lecture Three: Hope and Play: Jonathan Lear's Radical Hope and Lars von Trier's Melancholia
  • Epilogue: Public Things, Shared Space, and the Commons
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index