Introduction
Crises of the Republic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6357315 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jack Turner (0000-0003-4470-1805, University of Washington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 535-541 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1057/pol.2015.25 |
| OpenAlex | W1664166334 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
The crises of the American republic—from climate change to economic inequality to overextended empire—make the subject of political imagination pressing. What future do we want for ourselves? How do we reconcile that vision with empirical reality? Political imagination concerns the scope and shape of the possible. Democratic theorist Jason Frank makes conflicts over political imagination the center of his scholarship. This symposium focuses on his recent work. That work helps us address two significant challenges in democratic struggles over political imagination. First, how does a democratic people wanting to make a new start, to revolutionize the polity, orient itself to the founding myths of society, especially when those myths—such as that of the American founders—have such a strong hold on public imagination? Second, how can a democratic people recover the transformative power and possibility of the idea of “the people” that authorized the work of the founders, and that may authorize their supersession? This introduction outlines the contours of the Polity symposium on “Political Imagination and The Problem of Founding: The Work of Jason Frank” and provides background on Frank’s scholarship
Democracy · Empire · Environmental ethics · Mythology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Power (physics · Scholarship · Sociology · Subject (documents · Transformative learning · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theory and Influence
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |