Jason Frank

Broschiertes Buch

Democratic Sublime

On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly

Beschreibung

The Democratic Sublime offers an interdisciplinary exploration of how popular assemblies--crowds, demonstrations, gatherings of the "people out of doors"--came to be central to the political aesthetics of democracy during the age of democratic revolutions (1776 to 1848). Engaging with a wide range of sources, from canonical political theorists (Rousseau, Burke, and Tocqueville) to the novels of Hugo, the visual culture of the barricades, and the memoirs of popular insurgents, The Democratic Sublime demonstrates how making the people's sovereign will tangible to popular judgment became a central dilemma of modern democracy, and how it remains so today.

Autor

Jason Frank is the Robert J. Katz Chair of Government at Cornell University, where he teaches political theory. He has published widely on democratic theory, American political thought, modern political theory, politics and literature, and political aesthetics. His previous books include Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America (Duke University Press, 2010), Publius and Political Imagination (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013), and A Political Companion to Herman Melville (University Press of Kentucky, 2013). His research has appeared in Political Theory, Modern Intellectual History, The Review of Politics, and Public Culture, and his political commentary has been published in such outlets as the Boston Review and the New York Times.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780190658168
• ISBN-10: 0190658169
• Artikelnr.: 61194711