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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Tác giả chính: Kirkpatrick, Jennet, 1970- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469635408_kirkpatrick
Mục lục:
  • The argument against exit : Plato's Crito
  • Expressive exit : Thoreau
  • Exit and solidarity : fugitive slave narratives
  • Resistant exits : political exiles.