Imagined Sovereignties
The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age
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Word Count
57,500 words, Guess
Page Count
230 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveimaginedsovereig0000olso
- ISBN-101107113237
- ISBN-139781107113237
- Library of Congress Control Number2015051222
- OCLC Control Number930258100
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781107113237
- Open LibraryOL28592787M
Classifications
- LCCJF799.O54 2016
- LCCJF799 .O54 2016
Description
"Movements like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the Tea Party embody some of our deepest intuitions about popular politics and 'the power of the people'. They also expose tensions and shortcomings in our understanding of these ideals. We typically see 'the people' as having a special, sovereign power. Despite the centrality of this idea in our thinking, we have little understanding of why it has such importance. Imagined Sovereignties probes the considerable force that 'the people' exercises on our thought and practice. Like the imagined communities described by Benedict Anderson, popular politics is formed around shared, imaginary constructs rooted in our collective imagination. This book investigates these 'imagined sovereignties' in a genealogy traversing the French Enlightenment, the Haitian Revolution, and nineteenth-century Haitian constitutionalism. It problematizes taken-for-granted ideas about popular politics and provokes new ways of imagining the power of the people"--
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