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- 008 191209s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng
- 020 __ |a 9780190087845 |q (hardback)
- 020 __ |a 9780190087869 |q (epub)
- 040 __ |a LBSOR/DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC
- 050 00 |a HM1246 |b .I38 2020
- 099 __ |a CAL 022021005921
- 100 1_ |a Ikuta, Jennie Choi, |e author.
- 245 10 |a Contesting conformity : |b democracy and the paradox of political belonging / |c Jennie Choi Ikuta.
- 264 _1 |a New York, NY : |b Oxford University Press, |c [2020]
- 300 __ |a 178pages ; |c 25cm
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 505 0_ |a Non-conformity in American public life -- Countering conformity through intellectual freedom in Tocqueville's Democracy in America -- Contesting conformity through individuality in Mill's On liberty -- Refusing conformity through creativity in Nietzsche.
- 520 __ |a ""Be yourself!" "Don't just follow the crowd!" Such injunctions valorizing non-conformity pervade contemporary American culture. We praise individuals such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Steve Jobs who chart their own course in life and do something new. Yet surprisingly, recent research in social psychology has shown that in practice, Americans are averse to non-conformity. This disjunction between our public rhetoric and practice raises questions: Why is non-conformity valuable? Is it always valuable--or does it pose dangers as well as promise benefits for democratic societies? What is the relationship between non-conformity as an individual ideal and democracy as a form of collective self-rule? Contesting Conformity brings a fresh interpretive lens to the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche to investigate non-conformity and its relationship to modern democracy. Drawing new insight from their work, Ikuta argues that non-conformity is an intractable issue for democracy. While non-conformity is often important for cultivating a most just polity, non-conformity can also undermine democracy. Insofar as democracy depends on the ability of each citizen to critically reflect and dissent from an unjust public opinion when necessary, Tocqueville and Mill enable us to appreciate non-conformity as an ethical and political ideal for democratic citizens. However, non-conformity can also undermine democracy, as Nietzsche helps us see, insofar as unconstrained expressions of non-conformity may stand in tension with the equality constitutive of democracy. Contesting Conformity demonstrates that while non-conformity can enhance democracy, non-conformity is not necessarily democratic"-- |c Provided by publisher.
- 650 _0 |a Conformity |z United States.
- 650 _0 |a Democracy |z United States.
- 650 _0 |a Political socialization |z United States.
- 651 _0 |a United States |x Social conditions.
- 776 08 |i Online version: |a Ikuta, Jennie. |t Contesting conformity. |d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] |z 9780190087869 |w (DLC) 2019036719