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Constituent Moments Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America

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ISBN-10: 0822346753

ISBN-13: 9780822346753

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jason Frank

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Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that "the people" are the only legitimate ground of public authority in the United States. For just as long, there has been disagreement over who the people are and how they should be represented or institutionally embodied. InConstituent Moments, Jason Frank explores this dilemma of authorization, the grounding of democratic legitimacy in an elusive notion of the people. Frank argues that the people are not a coherent or sanctioned collective. Instead, the people exist as an effect of successful claims to speak on their behalf; the power to speak in their name can be vindicated only retrospectively. The people, and…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/4/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Constituent Moments
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: Authority and Imagination in Wieland
"Aesthetic Democracy": Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the People
Staging Dissensus: Frederick Douglass and "We the People"
conclusion: Prospective Time
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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