Whitman’s Undemocratic Vistas: Mortal Anxiety, National Glory, White Supremacy
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چکیده
Walt Whitman’s Democratic Vistas (1871) has become a touchstone of democratic theory. Commentators unusual ideological range uphold the book as politically exemplary. This article demonstrates that recent theoretical celebrations are sanitized and incomplete. I expose antidemocratic side by analyzing (1) its philosophy death (2) politics race. Whitman framed his immortalist response to within an imperialist historical teleology. That teleology entailed violations Native sovereignty, political inequality Black Americans, projection both peoples’ evolutionary extinction. emerges from this analysis necropolitical white supremacist. If, Richard Rorty argues, models salutary form reformist “national pride,” then it also illustrates dangerous susceptibility such pride moral innocence self-deceit.
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عنوان ژورنال: American Political Science Review
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0003-0554', '1537-5943']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055422000727