Description: Bonnie Honig invigorates debate over the politics of refusal by insisting that withdrawal from unjust political systems be matched with collective action to change them. Historical and fictional characters from Muhammad Ali to the Bacchants of ancient Greek tragedy teach us how to turn rejection into transformative efforts toward self-governance.
Brief description: Bonnie Honig is Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science at Brown University. Her books include Antigone, Interrupted; Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair; the prizewinning Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics and Emergency Politics.
Review Quotes: Exudes a hopefulness for an anticipated future in which democracy is not always already over but readied, perhaps for the first time, to witness the joy and act on the knowledge of its marginalized subjects...Honig's writing is elegant, economical, yet alive with a restrained but confident rhetorical flair.--Victoria Hesford "Cultural Critique" (6/1/2022 12:00:00 AM)