The democratic sublime : on aesthetics and popular assembly / Jason A. Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Jason A., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Philosophy.

Democracy.

Democracy--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages).

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'The Democratic Sublime' offers an interdisciplinary exploration of how the revolutionary proliferation of 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. Jason Frank argues that popular assemblies allowed the people to manifest as a collective actor capable of enacting dramatic political reforms and change. Moreover, Frank asserts that popular assemblies became privileged sites of democratic representation as they claimed to support the voice of the people while also signaling the material plenitude beyond any single representational claim.

Contents:

Preface : the beautiful revolution

Introduction : beyond democracy's imaginary investments

Popular manifestation

Rousseau's silent assemblies

The living image of the people

Delightful horror

The poetics of the barricades

Tocqueville's religious terror

Afterword : democratic appearance.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-065818-5

0-19-065816-9

0-19-065819-3

0-19-065817-7

OCLC:

1202731110