Queer Democracy

Queer Democracy undertakes an interdisciplinary critical investigation of the centuries-old metaphor of society as a body, drawing on queer and transgender accounts of embodiment as a constructive resource for reimagining politics and society.

Daniel Miller is Associate Professor of Religion and Social Thought and Chair of the Department of Liberal Studies at Landmark College. His research interests include religion, political theory and American politics, gender and embodiment, 20th Century Continental philosophy, and theory and method in the study of religion.

Introduction 1. Dysphoric Desire: Fantasizing the Social Body 2. Traversing the Fantasy: Queer Democracy 3. Bedeviled By Nature: The Social Contract Position 4. Fantasies of Authenticity: Nationalism and Populism 5. American Dysphoria I: Christian Nationalism 6. American Dysphoria II: Civic Nationalism Conclusion