02467nam 2200577Ia 450 991082545750332120240516051408.01-283-08466-X97866130846680-7391-4988-1(CKB)2560000000072830(EBL)686289(OCoLC)719383027(SSID)ssj0000468347(PQKBManifestationID)11973266(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468347(PQKBWorkID)10514568(PQKB)11522119(MiAaPQ)EBC686289(Au-PeEL)EBL686289(CaPaEBR)ebr10465518(CaONFJC)MIL308466(EXLCZ)99256000000007283020110107d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDemocratic anxieties same-sex marriage, death, and citizenship /Mario Feit1st ed.Lanham, MD Lexington Booksc20111 online resource (205 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-4986-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 AuthorDemocratic 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.Same-sex marriagePolitical aspectsUnited StatesHomosexualityPolitical aspectsUnited StatesSame-sex marriagePolitical aspectsHomosexualityPolitical aspects323.6Feit Mario1971-1635368MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825457503321Democratic anxieties3976097UNINA