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Constituent moments : enacting the people in postrevolutionary America /

An argument that the people, the legitimate ground of public authority in the United States, are not a coherent or sanctioned collective; rather, they exist as an effect of successful claims to speak on their behalf.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Frank, Jason A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2010.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Revolution and reiteration : Hannah Arendt's critique of constituent power
  • Crowds and communication : representation and voice in postrevolutionary America
  • Sympathy and separation : Benjamin Rush and the contagious public
  • Spaces of insurgent citizenship : theorizing the Democratic-Republican societies
  • Hearing voices : imagination and authority in Wieland
  • Aesthetic democracy : Walt Whitman and the poetry of the people
  • Staging dissensus : Frederick Douglass and "We the people."