The Virtues of Exit : On Resistance and Quitting Politics /
Successful democracies rely on an active citizenry. They require citizens to participate by voting, serving on juries, and running for office. But what happens when those citizens purposefully opt out of politics? Exit--the act of leaving--is often thought of as purely instinctual, a part of the hum...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469635408_kirkpatrick |
Table of Contents:
- The argument against exit : Plato's Crito
- Expressive exit : Thoreau
- Exit and solidarity : fugitive slave narratives
- Resistant exits : political exiles.