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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Bonnie HonigPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780823276400ISBN 10: 0823276406 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 01 March 2017 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAlthough, on the surface, the title Public Things is just a routine translation of the Latin res publica, Honig injects into the phrase a radical twist which exposes the disrepair of contemporary democratic politics. Although upholding the need for publicly shared concerns, her book also launches an indictment: namely, that increasingly such concerns are reified and objectified and thereby transformed into targets for individual or corporate appropriation. A fast-paced tour de force. Honig explores the role of public things in democratic politics, especially against the background of neoliberal privatization. -- -John Seery Public Things like the Postal Service have long been under attack, as political theorist Bonnie Honig powerfully argues in the publication of a series of lectures on democracy in disrepair. Writing against the culture of opting out of public services, spaces, and systems, Honig defends public infrastructures as the things that bind people together, the very things democracy is made of. illuminat[es] the need for public things in democratic life when the political economy deprives us of such things. Honig's arguments and lively prose are compelling and make a convincing plea to shift the gaze away from the iPhone towards the fragile public infrastructure-parks, subways, bridges-around us. -- Irena Rosenthal A fast-paced tour de force. Honig explores the role of public things in democratic politics, especially against the background of neoliberal privatization. --John Seery, George Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and Professor of Politics, Pomona College A fast-paced tour de force. Honig explores the role of public things in democratic politics, especially against the background of neoliberal privatization. -John Seery, George Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and Professor of Politics, Pomona College A fast-paced tour de force. Honig explores the role of public things in democratic politics, especially against the background of neoliberal privatization. -- -John Seery George Irving Thompson Memorial Professor of Government and Professor of Politics, Pomona College Author InformationBonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) and Political Science at Brown University. She is also Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, Chicago. Her most recent books are Antigone, Interrupted; Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy; and, as co-editor, Politics, Theory, and Film: Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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