American Mourning
American Mourning by Simon Stow, published by Cambridge University Press on July 25, 2017, is a critical examination of how democratic societies process loss and its implications for political outcomes. This 234-page book explores the concept of public mourning in America, arguing for a more complex and tragic understanding of grief that contrasts with prevailing nationalist and nostalgic responses. Through this lens, Stow analyzes the shortcomings of American democracy and engages with key debates in contemporary democratic theory.
Readers will find an in-depth discussion that connects mourning to themes such as political resilience, acknowledgment, and humanism. The book presents new interpretations of significant texts from both Ancient political thought and American political history, addressing issues like terrorism and racial conflict. By framing mourning as a critical aspect of democratic engagement, American Mourning invites readers to reconsider how societies can better respond to loss and its broader implications for governance and civic life.
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How does the way in which a democratic polity mourn its losses shape its political outcomes? How might it shape those outcomes? American Mourning: Tragedy, Democracy, Resilience answers these questions with a critical study of American public mourning. Employing mourning as a lens through which to view the shortcomings of American democracy, it offers an argument for a tragic, complex, and critical mode of mourning that it contrasts with the nationalist, romantic, and nostalgic responses to loss that currently dominate and damage the polity. Offering new readings of key texts in Ancient political thought and American political history, it engages debates central to contemporary democratic theory concerned with agonism, acknowledgment, hope, humanism, patriotism, and political resilience. The book outlines new ways of thinking about and responding to terrorism, racial conflict, and the problems of democratic military return.
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