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The Democratic Sublime - On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly (Paperback)
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The 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 power. 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
institutionalization 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. 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. 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 ineffability 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, The
Democratic Sublime demonstrates how making the people's sovereign
will tangible to popular judgment became a central dilemma of
modern democracy, and how it remains so today.
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