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The Democratic Sublime
"In a series of articles written for the Neue Rhenische Zeitung in 1850, later published by Friedrich Engels as The Class Struggles in France, Karl Marx looked back on the failed French revolution of 1848 and attempted to explain how the democratic aspirations that inspired the February assault on the July Monarchy-and promised to fulfill the dashed hopes of 1789, 1792, and 1830-also led to its termination in the reactionary popular dictatorship of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Popular sovereignty, which had so often defined the emancipatory visions of two generations of radical activists and thinkers was now not only an obstacle to genuine emancipation, but a plebiscitary source of power for ne...
The Democratic Sublime
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. H...
The Promise
This is the second book and first fictional novel for the author. While specific characters in the novel are fictional, some scenes that are descripted occur fictionally in places that once existed and some places in the novel still exist. They play a major role in telling a gripping story that can and could occur. Richard Wayne Hatley had lived and worked in some of those places. He has known some of the people that are like some of the characters in this novel. There are no actual people depicted in this book with the exception of people that are mentioned from a historical basis. There are references to events that may and did occur in the time frame of the novel. There are no attempts to document any reasons for any other than the occurrence of those events. The characters depicted in this novel are fictional. They are not based on any person who ever existed. Any resemblance to a living person is unintended. This novel is written for the enjoyment of the reader and is neither an endorsement nor a criticism of any existing person, place, government, institution, or religion.
Publius and Political Imagination
Jason Frank’s Publius and Political Imagination is the first volume of the Modernity and Political Thought series to take as its focus not a single author, but collaboration between political thinkers, in this very special case the collective known by the pseudonym: Publius. Frank's revisionist reading of The Federalist Papers—perhaps the most canonical text in American political thought—counters familiar realist and deliberativist interpretations and demonstrates the neglected importance of political imagination to both Publius's arguments and to the republic he was invented to found.
The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists
This book traces the significance of Frances Wright, Harriet Martineau, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth in shaping American political thinking. They understood the relationship between sexism, racism and economic inequality. Their efforts to expand the reach of America's founding ideals laid the groundwork not only for women's suffrage and the abolition of slavery, but for the broader expansion of civil, political, and human rights that would characterize much of the twentieth century and continues to unfold today.
Constituent Moments
Since the American Revolution, there has been broad cultural consensus that “the people” are the only legitimate ground of public authority in the United States. For just as long, there has been disagreement over who the people are and how they should be represented or institutionally embodied. In Constituent Moments, Jason Frank explores this dilemma of authorization: the grounding of democratic legitimacy in an elusive notion of the people. Frank argues that the people are not a coherent or sanctioned collective. Instead, the people exist as an effect of successful claims to speak on their behalf; the power to speak in their name can be vindicated only retrospectively. The people, and ...
Misunderstood: Nothing to Joke About
Jason Sutter, a thirteen-year-old genius and telepath, struggles every day to deal with his special gifts. Not long ago, he discovered there are others like himand that those others are dangerous. He has to hide; using his power would be like sending up flares signaling his location. But his efforts have been in vain. His enemies have arrived in Franklin Chase, Pennsylvania, and their mission is to find and kill any telepaths who live outside of their Community. While Jason attempts to stay alive, he becomes embroiled in the mystery of who is killing elderly care facility patients. Thats not all thats going on in Jasons life, though. He currently lives in a foster home with the Dubois family, but he dreams of locating his mother in New York City. Only time will tell, however, whether Jason will survive a confrontation with his enemies and manage to begin rebuilding his family.
Misunderstood
Jason Sutter, a thirteen-year-old genius and telepath, struggles every day to deal with his special gifts. Not long ago, he discovered there are others like him-and that those others are dangerous. He has to hide; using his power would be like sending up flares signaling his location. But his efforts have been in vain. His enemies have arrived in Franklin Chase, Pennsylvania, and their mission is to find and kill any telepaths who live outside of their Community. While Jason attempts to stay alive, he becomes embroiled in the mystery of who is killing elderly care facility patients. That's not all that's going on in Jason's life, though. He currently lives in a foster home with the Dubois family, but he dreams of locating his mother in New York City. Only time will tell, however, whether Jason will survive a confrontation with his enemies and manage to begin rebuilding his family.
Melville's Democracy
For Herman Melville, the instability of democracy held tremendous creative potential. Examining the centrality of political thought to Melville's oeuvre, Jennifer Greiman argues that Melville's densely figurative aesthetics give form to a radical reimagining of democratic foundations, relations, and ways of being—modeling how we can think democracy in political theory today. Across Melville's five decades of writing, from his early Pacific novels to his late poetry, Greiman identifies a literary formalism that is radically political and carries the project of democratic theory in new directions. Recovering Melville's readings in political philosophy and aesthetics, Greiman shows how he eng...
