Public discussion of the third book in philosopher Robert B. Talisse's democratic trilogy
You also can find the event listing at democracy.community. There are also events around the book in Nashville on December 6, 2024, and in New York City on January 9, 2025.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Date: January 31, 2025. Time: 7p. Location: Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Joe Mathews, founder and columnist at Democracy Local, will interview Vanderbilt professor Robert B. Talisse about democracy.
The occasion is the publication of Talisse's new book, Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance.
Civic Solitude is the third book in Talisse's acclaimed trilogy of books devoted to rethinking our relationship with democracy.
The first book, Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in Its Place (2019), examined the ways that democratic politics had extended into many venues of life, alienating us from each other.
The second book: Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe to the Other Side (2021), demonstrated how when we stop talking to our democratic opponents, we end up fighting with our friends.
Civic Solitude shows how democracy is about more than engagement and shared action. Democracy requires reflection, and time alone.
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be on sale, and the author will sign copies.
Details on the book are available at Oxford University Press.
