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Named Person: | Hannah Arendt; D W Winnicott; Hannah Arendt; D W Winnicott; Hannah Arendt; Donald W Winnicott |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bonnie Honig |
ISBN: | 9780823276400 0823276406 9780823276417 0823276414 |
OCLC Number: | 959033674 |
Description: | xiii, 144 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Preface: Opting out -- Introduction: Thinking out loud -- Lecture One: Democracy's necessary conditions -- Lecture Two: Care and concern: Arendt with Winnicott -- Lecture Three: Hope and play: Jonahthan Lear's Radical hope and Lars von Trier's Melancholia -- Epilogue: Public things, shared space, and the commons. |
Series Title: | Thinking out loud (New York, N.Y.) |
Responsibility: | Bonnie Honig. |
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Public Things is a healthy antidote to make a case why things like public schools, spaces, and utilities matter for a healthy democracy. Public Things provides a defense of public institutions, practices, and spaces that transcend the utilitarian calculus of neoliberalism and paves way for a possibly different and more hopeful future. * VoegelinView * "illuminat[es] the need for public things in democratic life when the political economy deprives us of such things. Honig's arguments and lively prose are compelling and make a convincing plea to shift the gaze away from the iPhone towards the fragile public infrastructure-parks, subways, bridges-around us.---Irena Rosenthal, Contemporary Political Theory Public Things like the Postal Service have long been under attack, as political theorist Bonnie Honig powerfully argues in the publication of a series of lectures on "democracy in disrepair." Writing against the culture of "opting out" of public services, spaces, and systems, Honig defends public infrastructures as the things that bind people together, the very things democracy is made of. * Urban Omnibus * Although, on the surface, the title "Public Things" is just a routine translation of the Latin res publica, Honig injects into the phrase a radical twist which exposes the "disrepair" of contemporary democratic politics. Although upholding the need for publicly shared concerns, her book also launches an indictment: namely, that increasingly such concerns are reified and objectified and thereby transformed into targets for individual or corporate appropriation. * Global-E, UC Santa Barbara * A fast-paced tour de force. Honig explores the role of public things in democratic politics, especially against the background of neoliberal privatization. Read more...


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- Arendt, Hannah, -- 1906-1975.
- Winnicott, D. W. -- (Donald Woods), -- 1896-1971.
- Democracy -- Philosophy.
- Political science -- Philosophy.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
- PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
- Arendt, Hannah -- 1906-1975
- Winnicott, Donald W.
- Demokratie
- Politische Philosophie
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