Sensing the Nation's Law: Historical Inquiries into the Aesthetics of Democratic Legitimacy

Administrative / Constitutional Law

Sensing the Nation's Law: Historical Inquiries into the Aesthetics of Democratic Legitimacy

Edited by Mark Antaki · Angela Condello · Stefan Huygebaert · Sarah Marusek
Springer-Verlag April 2018

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ISBN-13
9783319754956
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Publication
April 2018
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
Switzerland ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book examines how the nation - and its (fundamental) law - are `sensed' by way of various aesthetic forms from the age of revolution up until our age of contested democratic legitimacy. Contemporary democratic legitimacy is tied, among other things, to consent, to representation, to the identity of ruler and ruled, and, of course, to legality and the legal forms through which democracy is structured.

This book expands the ways in which we can understand and appreciate democratic legitimacy. If (democratic) communities are "imagined" this book suggests that their "rightfulness" must be "sensed" - analogously to the need for justice not only to be done, but to be seen to be done. This book brings together legal, historical and philosophical perspectives on the representation and iconography of the nation in the European, North American and Australian contexts from contributors in law, political science, history, art history and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I: Revolution, Constitution, Republic
Chapter 2. Monument, Portrait, Tableau: Making Sense of and With Jacques Louis David's Tennis Court Oath
Chapter 3. The Quest for the Decisive Constitutional Moment (DCM)
Chapter 4. Courbet and the Nude Republican Master
Part II: The Aesthetic Constitution of Office
Chapter 5. Justice Petrified: The Seat of the Italian Supreme Court between Law, Architecture and Iconography
Chapter 6. Visual Rhetoric as "a Space-in-between": Semiotic Account of French Official Presidential Photographs
Part III: Untimely Reflections on the Nation's Law
Chapter 7. A Hypothesis on the Genealogy of the Motto "In God We Trust" and the Emergence of the Identity of the Church
Chapter 8. Here and Now: From "Aestheticizing Politics" to "Politicizing Art"
Part IV: Out of Many, One
Chapter 9. Appreciation or Appropriation? An Indigenous Moment in the American Numismatic Narrative (1999-2009).
Chapter 10. Internormative Gastronomies: Law, Nation and Identity
Part V: Consensus
Chapter 11. Aesthetic Mediation: Towards Legitimate Power.
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