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Wydawca: Princeton University Press
Data wydania: 01.09.2026
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
EAN: 9780691288857
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How Walt Whitman's philosophy of death prepares the soul for freedom and equality
Humans fantasize about immortality. Billionaires dabble in cryonics, politicians build monuments to themselves, and writers donate their papers to libraries. In Die Your Own Death, Jack Turner argues that the quest for immortality—literal or symbolic—is politically destructive. He does so through a meditation on the work of Walt Whitman. Whitman held that democracy prepares individuals to 'die their own deaths'—free of fear, resentment, and illusion. In Whitman's 'existential democracy,' accepting death strengthens freedom and equality. And yet, Turner finds, Whitman only half succeeded in forging a democratic philosophy of death. As Whitman's thought evolved in response to changing ideas about nation, race, and empire, he encouraged citizens to seek immortality through racial imperialism—the expansion of white empire from North America to the Pacific Islands—as a monument to American greatness.
Turner explores the poetics of death in Leaves of Grass and its relationship to Whitman's democratic theory ('I exist as I am, that is enough'). Through a close analysis of Drum-Taps and Memoranda During the War, Turner shows that Whitman sought to redeem the mass slaughter of the Civil War by cloaking it in poetic and national glory. And in Whitman's greatest prose work, Democratic Vistas, Turner argues, Whitman envisioned an antidemocratic national immortalism that ignored Native sovereignty and Black equality. Turner exposes the dark side of Whitman's philosophy of death, but he also reveals how that philosophy can still be a resource in the ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.
Humans fantasize about immortality. Billionaires dabble in cryonics, politicians build monuments to themselves, and writers donate their papers to libraries. In Die Your Own Death, Jack Turner argues that the quest for immortality—literal or symbolic—is politically destructive. He does so through a meditation on the work of Walt Whitman. Whitman held that democracy prepares individuals to 'die their own deaths'—free of fear, resentment, and illusion. In Whitman's 'existential democracy,' accepting death strengthens freedom and equality. And yet, Turner finds, Whitman only half succeeded in forging a democratic philosophy of death. As Whitman's thought evolved in response to changing ideas about nation, race, and empire, he encouraged citizens to seek immortality through racial imperialism—the expansion of white empire from North America to the Pacific Islands—as a monument to American greatness.
Turner explores the poetics of death in Leaves of Grass and its relationship to Whitman's democratic theory ('I exist as I am, that is enough'). Through a close analysis of Drum-Taps and Memoranda During the War, Turner shows that Whitman sought to redeem the mass slaughter of the Civil War by cloaking it in poetic and national glory. And in Whitman's greatest prose work, Democratic Vistas, Turner argues, Whitman envisioned an antidemocratic national immortalism that ignored Native sovereignty and Black equality. Turner exposes the dark side of Whitman's philosophy of death, but he also reveals how that philosophy can still be a resource in the ongoing struggle for freedom and equality.
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Data wydania: 01.09.2026
Liczba stron: 152
Wymiary: 14.0x21.6
Typ okładki:miękka okładka
Wydawca: Princeton University Press
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Tytuł:Die Your Own Death: Walt Whitman’s Existential Democracy
EAN: 9780691288857
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