LEADER 04575nam 22007695 450 001 9910792882703321 005 20230124194016.0 010 $a0-8232-7644-9 010 $a0-8232-7706-2 010 $a0-8232-7643-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823276431 035 $a(CKB)3710000001099930 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4821738 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001720911 035 $a(OCoLC)976397068 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse59077 035 $a(DE-B1597)551405 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823276431 035 $a(OCoLC)976434209 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001099930 100 $a20200723h20172017 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aPublic Things $eDemocracy in Disrepair /$fBonnie Honig 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (161 pages) 225 0 $aThinking Out Loud 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2017. 311 0 $a0-8232-7641-4 311 0 $a0-8232-7640-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface: Opting Out --$tIntroduction. Thinking Out Loud --$tLecture One: Democracy?s Necessary Conditions --$tLecture Two: Care and Concern: Arendt with Winnicott --$tLecture Three: Hope and Play: Jonathan Lear?s Radical Hope and Lars von Trier?s Melancholia --$tEpilogue: Public Things, Shared Space, and the Commons --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political and economic health. State bureaucracy, but not corporate bureaucracy, is seen as inefficient, and privatization is seen as a magic cure for social ills. In Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair, Bonnie Honig asks whether democracy is possible in the absence of public services, spaces, and utilities. In other words, if neoliberalism leaves to democracy merely electoral majoritarianism and procedures of deliberation while divesting democratic states of their ownership of public things, what will the impact be? Following Tocqueville, who extolled the virtues of ?pursuing in common the objects of common desires,? Honig focuses not on the demos but on the objects of democratic life. Democracy, as she points out, postulates public things?infrastructure, monuments, libraries?that citizens use, care for, repair, and are gathered up by. To be ?gathered up? refers to the work of D. W. Winnicott, the object relations psychoanalyst who popularized the idea of ?transitional objects??the toys, teddy bears, or favorite blankets by way of which infants come to understand themselves as unified selves with an inside and an outside in relation to others. The wager of Public Things is that the work transitional objects do for infants is analogously performed for democratic citizens by public things, which press us into object relations with others and with ourselves. Public Things attends also to the historically racial character of public things: public lands taken from indigenous peoples, access to public goods restricted to white majorities. Drawing on Hannah Arendt, who saw how things fabricated by humans lend stability to the human world, Honig shows how Arendt and Winnicott?both theorists of livenesss?underline the material and psychological conditions necessary for object permanence and the reparative work needed for a more egalitarian democracy. 410 0$aThinking out loud. 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 606 $aDemocracy$xPhilosophy 610 $aArendt. 610 $aJonathan Lear. 610 $aSovereignty. 610 $aTocqueville. 610 $aWinnicott. 610 $aaffect. 610 $acivil obedience. 610 $ademocratic theory. 610 $aindigenous politics. 610 $ainfrastructure. 610 $aneoliberalism. 610 $aobject relations. 610 $aopting out. 610 $arace. 610 $avon Trier. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aDemocracy$xPhilosophy. 676 $a321.8 686 $aPOL007000$aPHI019000$2bisacsh 700 $aHonig$b Bonnie$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0326410 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792882703321 996 $aPublic Things$93790021 997 $aUNINA