Elaborating his theory of constituent moments, Frank focuses on specific historical instances when under-authorized individuals or associations seized the mantle of authority, and, by doing so, changed the inherited rules of authorization and produced new spaces and conditions for political representation. He looks at crowd actions such as parades, riots, and protests; the Democratic-Republican Societies of the 1790s; and the writings of Walt Whitman and Frederick Douglass. Frank demonstrates that the revolutionary establishment of the people is not a solitary event, but rather a series of micropolitical enactments, small dramas of self-authorization that take place in the informal contexts of crowd actions, political oratory, and literature as well as in the more formal settings of constitutional conventions and political associations.
Eminent and emerging thinkers seek to bridge the gap between political thought and political action.
Political Science
Eminent and emerging thinkers seek to bridge the gap between political thought and political action. Written by scholars with a rare sense of the historical and conceptual breadth of politics and theory, the essays in this volume explore possibilities for political theory in a world marked by disorienting political transformations. In doing so, they document and address the character and status of contemporary political theory, its changing place in the academy, and its role in public life. Whether challenging the settlement between political theory and political science, whereby theorists stuck to the "old texts" and left the "real world" to their empirical colleagues, or interrogating the relationship between political theory and political action, these essays expand and elaborate the parameters of political discourse-making their timeliness, relevance, and reach powerfully apparent.Contributors: Mark B. Brown; Wendy Brown, UC Santa Cruz; William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins U; Thomas L. Dumm, Amherst College; J. Peter Euben, UC Santa Cruz; Russell Arben Fox; Samantha Frost, UC Santa Cruz; Shane Gunster; Jill Locke, Gustavus Adolphus College; David Paul Mandell, Reed College; Lon Troyer; Sheldon S. Wolin; Linda M. B. Zerilli, Northwestern U.Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota PressREADERS
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