Democratic Anxieties: Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship

By Mario Feit

Democratic Anxieties: Same-Sex Marriage, Death, and Citizenship takes contemporary opposition to same-sex marriage as a starting point to consider anxieties about sex and death within conceptions of democratic citizenship. It pursues a less anxious democratic citizenship in creative readings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hannah Arendt, and Friedrich Nietzsche, and demonstrates how developing an appreciation of mortality is essential to the continued pluralization of democracy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739149865
• ISBN13: 9780739149867
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"