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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מחבר ראשי: Kirkpatrick, Jennet, 1970- (Author)
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469635408_kirkpatrick
תוכן הענינים:
  • The argument against exit : Plato's Crito
  • Expressive exit : Thoreau
  • Exit and solidarity : fugitive slave narratives
  • Resistant exits : political exiles.