Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: There Will Be Blood: Antinomies of Democracy
- 1 American Dionysia
- 2 Democracy at War with Itself: Citizens
- 3 Democracy at War with Itself: Animals
- 4 Forcing Democracy to Be Free: Rousseau to Springsteen
- 5 Two Cheers for Democratic Violence
- 6 New Tragic Democratic Traditions
- Conclusion: Democracy's Tragic Affirmations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: There Will Be Blood: Antinomies of Democracy
- 1 American Dionysia
- 2 Democracy at War with Itself: Citizens
- 3 Democracy at War with Itself: Animals
- 4 Forcing Democracy to Be Free: Rousseau to Springsteen
- 5 Two Cheers for Democratic Violence
- 6 New Tragic Democratic Traditions
- Conclusion: Democracy's Tragic Affirmations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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- Chapter
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- American DionysiaViolence, Tragedy, and Democratic Politics, pp. 293 - 296Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015