Jason Frank

Constituent Moments

Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the legal and political dilemmas engendered by the American Revolution's enthronement of "the people" as the legitimate ground of public authority by focusing on moments of contestation around self-representation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346753
• ISBN-10: 0822346753
• Artikelnr.: 28038059

Autorenporträt

Jason Frank is the Gary S. Davis Assistant Professor in the History of Political Thought at Cornell University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Constituent Moments 1
1. Revolution and Reiteration: Hannah Arendt's Critique of Constituent
Power 41
2. Crowds and Communication: Representation and Voice in Postrevolutionary
America 67
3. Sympathy and Separation: Benjamin Rush and the Contagious Public 101
4. Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship: Theorizing the Democratic-Republican
Societies 128
5. Hearing Voices: Imagination and Authority in Wieland 156
6. Aesthetic Democracy: Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the People 182
7. Staging Dissensus: Frederick Douglass and "We the People" 209
Conclusion: Prospective Time 237
Notes 255
Bibliography 301
Index 331