Explores the legal and political dilemmas engendered by the American Revolution's enthronement of "the people" as the legitimate ground of public authority by focusing on moments of contestation around self-representation.
Explores the legal and political dilemmas engendered by the American Revolution's enthronement of "the people" as the legitimate ground of public authority by focusing on moments of contestation around self-representation.
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Constituent Moments 1 1. Revolution and Reiteration: Hannah Arendt's Critique of Constituent Power 41 2. Crowds and Communication: Representation and Voice in Postrevolutionary America 67 3. Sympathy and Separation: Benjamin Rush and the Contagious Public 101 4. Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship: Theorizing the Democratic-Republican Societies 128 5. Hearing Voices: Imagination and Authority in Wieland 156 6. Aesthetic Democracy: Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the People 182 7. Staging Dissensus: Frederick Douglass and "We the People" 209 Conclusion: Prospective Time 237 Notes 255 Bibliography 301 Index 331
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Constituent Moments 1 1. Revolution and Reiteration: Hannah Arendt's Critique of Constituent Power 41 2. Crowds and Communication: Representation and Voice in Postrevolutionary America 67 3. Sympathy and Separation: Benjamin Rush and the Contagious Public 101 4. Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship: Theorizing the Democratic-Republican Societies 128 5. Hearing Voices: Imagination and Authority in Wieland 156 6. Aesthetic Democracy: Walt Whitman and the Poetry of the People 182 7. Staging Dissensus: Frederick Douglass and "We the People" 209 Conclusion: Prospective Time 237 Notes 255 Bibliography 301 Index 331
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