American dionysia : violence, tragedy, and democratic politics /

Violence and tragedy riddle democracy, not due to fatal shortcomings or unnecessary failures, but because of its very design and success. To articulate this troubling claim, Steven Johnston explores the cruelty of democratic founding, the brutal use democracies make of citizens and animals during wa...

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Main Author:	Johnston, Steven
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Political violence > United States. War and society > United States. Democracy > United States. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.