ISBN:
0822391686
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082234663X
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0822346753
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9780822391685
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9780822346630
,
9780822346753
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xii, 346 p.))
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Paralleltitel:
Print version Constituent moments
DDC:
306.20973/09034
Schlagwort(e):
Political participation History
;
Political culture History
;
Federal government History
;
United States Politics and government
;
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Constituent Moments; 1. Revolution and Reiteration: Hannah Arendt's Critique of Constituent Power; 2. Crowds and Communication: Representation and Voice in Postrevolutionary America; 3. Sympathy and Separation: Benjamin Rush and the Contagious Public; 4. Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship: Theorizing the Democratic-Republican Societies; 5. Hearing Voices: Authority and Imagination in Wieland; 6. "Aesthetic Democracy": Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the People; 7. Staging Dissensus: Frederick Douglass and "We the People"; Conclusion: Prospective Time
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
NotesBibliography; Index
Anmerkung:
Description based on print version record
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-329) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822391685?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822391685
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