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Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
Contributor(s): Klinenberg, Eric (Editor), Marcus, Sharon (Editor), Zaloom, Caitlin (Editor)

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ISBN: 0231190115     ISBN-13: 9780231190114
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Affairs & Administration
- Political Science | American Government - General
- Political Science | Essays
Dewey: 306.209
LCCN: 2018061396
Series: Public Books
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5" W x 7.7" L (0.65 lbs) 288 pages
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product
Review Citations: Library Journal 06/01/2019 pg. 136
 
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On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election's consequences drastically changed how Americans experience their country, especially for those threatened by the public outburst of bigotry and repression. Amid the deluge of tweets and breaking news stories that turn each day into a political soap opera, it can be difficult to take a step back and see the big picture. To confront the threats we face, we must recognize that the Trump presidency is a symptom, not the malady.

Antidemocracy in America is a collective effort to understand how we got to this point and what can be done about it. Assembled by the sociologist Eric Klinenberg as well as the editors of the online magazine Public Books, Caitlin Zaloom and Sharon Marcus, it offers essays from many of the nation's leading scholars, experts on topics including race, religion, gender, civil liberties, protest, inequality, immigration, climate change, national security, and the role of the media. Antidemocracy in America places our present in international and historical context, considering the worldwide turn toward authoritarianism and its varied precursors. Each essay seeks to inform our understanding of the fragility of American democracy and suggests how to protect it from the buried contradictions that Trump's victory brought into public view.


Contributor Bio(s): Brown, Wendy: - Wendy Brown (PhD, Political Philosophy, Princeton) is Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution (Zone, 2015), Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (Zone, 2010), and Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Empire and Identity (Princeton, 2006) and coauthor (with Rainer Forst) of The Power of Tolerance (Columbia, 2014), among a number of other titles. Her interests include political theory, critical theory, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, democratic theory, capitalism, and neoliberalism.Halberstam, Jack: - Jack Halberstam (PhD, English Literature, Minnesota) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and of Gender Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon, 2012), Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability (California, 2018), and Female Masculinity (Duke, 1998). He specializes in queer theory, cultural studies, gender studies, and feminist theory.Pickard, Victor: - "Reader #2 - Victor Pickard is an Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and the co-editor of The Future of Internet Policy (Routledge, 2015) and Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It (The New Press, 2011). I chose him for his background in media policy."Khan, Shamus: - Shamus Khan is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He is the series coeditor of The Middle Range series (Columbia), author of Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School (Princeton, 2011), co-author of The Practice of Research (w Dana Fisher; Oxford, 2013), and the editor of the journal Public Culture.Marcus, Sharon: - Sharon Marcus is the Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is the author of Apartment Stories: City and Home in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London(California, 1999) and Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton, 2007), and Editor-in-Chief of Public Books.Zaloom, Caitlin: - Caitlin Zaloom is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and a senior fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. She is the author of Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London(Chicago, 2006) and Editor-in-Chief of Public Books.Klinenberg, Eric: - Eric Klinenberg is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the author Palaces for the People (forthcoming), Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone (Penguin, 2013), and Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Chicago, 2002), and co-author of Modern Romance (with Aziz Ansari, Penguin, 2015).Butler, Judith: - Judith Butler (PhD, Philosophy, Yale) is the Maxine Eliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and
Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory (of which she was the Founding Director) at the University of California at Berkeley. Among her many works are Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (Columbia, 2012), Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (Columbia, 2012), Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (Columbia, 2002), and (with Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West) The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (Columbia, 2011).
 
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