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Constituent moments : enacting the people in postrevolutionary America / Jason Frank.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frank, Jason A.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--United States--History.
- Political culture.
- Political participation--United States--History.
- Political participation.
- Federal government--United States--History.
- Federal government.
- United States--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (362 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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".
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-329) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613036230
- 9781283036238
- 1283036231
- 9780822391685
- 0822391686
- OCLC:
- 504584147
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