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Informationen zum Autor Kennan Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and the author of William James: Politics in the Pluriverse and The Politics of Judgment: Aesthetics, Identity, and Political Theory. Klappentext Kennan Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and the author of William James: Politics in the Pluriverse and The Politics of Judgment: Aesthetics, Identity, and Political Theory. Zusammenfassung Ferguson starts with the commonplace assumption within political philosophy that the family provides the ideal model for political association. Yet families are not necessarily harmonious units. Ferguson takes up several situations to think about how familial attachments can offer insight into the creation of a pluralistic and democratic society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii 1. Familial Intensities 1 2. The Functioning Family 13 3. Communities against Politics 33 4. Silence: A Politics 63 5. I [Heart] My Dog 83 6. The Spaces of Disability 107 7. Familiar Languages 125 Notes 153 Bibliography 179 Index 193
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Kennan Ferguson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and the author of William James: Politics in the Pluriverse and The Politics of Judgment: Aesthetics, Identity, and Political Theory.
