Sensing the Nation's Law
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Sensing the Nation's Law

Historical Inquiries into the Aesthetics of Democratic Legitimacy

Herausgegeben: Huygebaert, Stefan; Condello, Angela; Marusek, Sarah; Antaki, Mark
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This book examines how the nation - and its (fundamental) law - are 'sensed' by way of various aesthetic forms from the age of revolution up until our age of contested democratic legitimacy. Contemporary democratic legitimacy is tied, among other things, to consent, to representation, to the identity of ruler and ruled, and, of course, to legality and the legal forms through which democracy is structured. This book expands the ways in which we can understand and appreciate democratic legitimacy. If (democratic) communities are "imagined" this book suggests that their "rightfulness" must be "se...