{"product_id":"democratic-sublime-on-aesthetics-and-popular-assembly-paperback","title":"Democratic Sublime: On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJason Frank\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe transition from royal to popular sovereignty during the age of democratic revolutions--from 1776 to 1848--entailed not only the reorganization of institutions of governance and norms of political legitimacy, but also a dramatic transformation in the iconography and symbolism of political\u003cbr\u003epower. The personal and external rule of the king, whose body was the physical locus of political authority, was replaced with the impersonal and immanent self-rule of the people, whose power could not be incontestably embodied. This posed representational difficulties that went beyond questions of\u003cbr\u003einstitutionalization and law, extending into the aesthetic realm of visualization, composition, and form. How to make the people's sovereign will tangible to popular judgment was, and is, a crucial problem of democratic political aesthetics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Democratic Sublime\u003c\/em\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003eFrank 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\u003cbr\u003ewhile also signaling the material plenitude beyond any single representational claim. Popular assemblies continue to retain this power, in part, because they embody that which escapes representational capture: they disrupt the representational space of appearance and draw their power from the\u003cbr\u003eineffability and resistant materiality of the people's will. Engaging with a wide range of sources, from canonical political theorists (Rousseau, Burke, and Tocqueville) to the novels of Hugo, the visual culture of the barricades, and the memoirs of popular insurgents, \u003cem\u003eThe Democratic Sublime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003edemonstrates how making the people's sovereign will tangible to popular judgment became a central dilemma of modern democracy, and how it remains so today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJason Frank \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Robert J. Katz Chair of Government at Cornell University, where he teaches political theory. He has published widely on democratic theory, American political thought, modern political theory, politics and literature, and political aesthetics. His previous books include \u003cem\u003eConstituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America\u003c\/em\u003e (Duke University Press, 2010), \u003cem\u003ePublius and Political Imagination \u003c\/em\u003e(Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield, 2013), and \u003cem\u003eA Political Companion to Herman Melville \u003c\/em\u003e(University Press of Kentucky, 2013). His research has appeared in\u003cem\u003e Political Theory, Modern Intellectual History, The Review of Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePublic Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, and his political commentary has been published in such outlets as the \u003cem\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/em\u003e and the\u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354866172153,"sku":"9780190658168","price":63.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/a2RkVDVNWEhubGZ0WFh5elNTTVRHdz09.webp?v=1769844124","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/democratic-sublime-on-aesthetics-and-popular-assembly-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}