1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792882703321

Autore

Honig Bonnie

Titolo

Public Things : Democracy in Disrepair / / Bonnie Honig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-8232-7644-9

0-8232-7706-2

0-8232-7643-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 pages)

Collana

Thinking Out Loud

Classificazione

POL007000PHI019000

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Democracy - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- 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: Jonathan Lear’s Radical Hope and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia -- Epilogue: Public Things, Shared Space, and the Commons -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 Honig asks whether democracy is possible in the absence of public services, spaces, and utilities. In other words, if neoliberalism leaves to democracy merely electoral majoritarianism and procedures of deliberation while divesting democratic states of their ownership of public things, what will the impact be? Following Tocqueville, who extolled the virtues of “pursuing in common the objects of common desires,” Honig focuses not on the demos but on the objects of democratic life. Democracy, as she points out, postulates public things—infrastructure, monuments, libraries—that citizens use, care for, repair, and are gathered up by. To be “gathered up” refers to the



work of D. W. Winnicott, the object relations psychoanalyst who popularized the idea of “transitional objects”—the toys, teddy bears, or favorite blankets by way of which infants come to understand themselves as unified selves with an inside and an outside in relation to others. The wager of Public Things is that the work transitional objects do for infants is analogously performed for democratic citizens by public things, which press us into object relations with others and with ourselves. Public Things attends also to the historically racial character of public things: public lands taken from indigenous peoples, access to public goods restricted to white majorities. Drawing on Hannah Arendt, who saw how things fabricated by humans lend stability to the human world, Honig shows how Arendt and Winnicott—both theorists of livenesss—underline the material and psychological conditions necessary for object permanence and the reparative work needed for a more egalitarian democracy.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782584003321

Autore

Hauge Martin Ravndal

Titolo

Between Sheol and Temple [[electronic resource] ] : motif structure and function in the I-Psalms / / Martin Ravndal Hauge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, Eng., : Sheffield Academic Press, c1995

ISBN

1-281-80332-4

9786611803322

0-567-57034-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 178

Disciplina

223

223.206

223/.206

Soggetti

Style, Literary

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 PSALM 140: INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 PSALMS 84 AND 36: THE PARADIGM;



Chapter 3 PSALMS 42-43: THE SACRED JOURNEY; Chapter 4 PSALMS 27 AND 26: THE I AS ACTUALIZATION OF THE PARADIGM; Chapter 5 PSALM 5: THE STRUGGLE TO DWELL IN THE TEMPLE; Chapter 6 PSALM 62: THE CONFESSOR AS TEMPLE DWELLER; Summary; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

As against traditional cultic and sociological interpretations of the 'I' Psalms, this original study stresses the 'I' as a literary figure. Yet on the other hand, the historical interest of the traditional models is retained, here with emphasis on 'original' function and intent. There is a common set of central motifs related to the 'I'-figure, most easily discernible when referring to categories of locality. The 'I' is depicted in a sacred landscape of contrasting localities-'Sheol' and 'Temple' connected by the concept of 'Way'. This motif structure deploys an ideological language in which