Interior States – Institutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy i…
Interior StatesInstitutional Consciousness and the Inner Life of Democracy in the Antebellum United States\nAuthor(s): Christopher Castiglia\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822342670, 978-0822342670\nSynopsis\nIn Interior States Christopher Castiglia focuses on [url] citizens democratic impulse: their ability to work with others to imagine genuinely democratic publics while taking divergent views into account. Castiglia contends that citizens of the early United States were encouraged to locate this social impulse not in associations with others but in the turbulent and conflicted interiors of their own bodies. He describes how the human interior-with its battles between appetite and restraint, desire and deferral-became a displacement of the divided sociality of nineteenth-century Americas public sphere and contributed to the vanishing of that sphere in the twentieth century and the twenty-first. Drawi.
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