The Democratic Sublime

Ye good in the book examines the way that the populace appears, and appears particularly as sublime, or is portrayed as sublime. In part, because i think we typically associate the sublime with ow that the dignity and the grandeur of the sublimethe the ention re withwt, a sort of monarchical regime. As popular sovereignty emerges as a hegemonic, legitimating norm, you have a replacement with those enchanted forms of royal authority with a reasoned, deliberative, iconoclastic politics.