Overview: Offers a unique, trans-disciplinary treatment of a topic that has not previously been discussed.Brings together scholars from the fields of law, political science, history, art history and philosophy.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 democ
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