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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2010.
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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."