In Ugly Freedoms Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by
liberal American democracy, outlining how the emphasis of individual liberty has always …

Winner, David Easton Award for Political Theory, 2023 In Resounding Events, one of the
world's preeminent political theorists reflects on a career as an academic hailing from the …

This essay reframes Hannah Arendt's evaluation of the “banality of evil” in light of
Eichmann's mimetic psychology, which Arendt intuited but did not fully articulate. Rather …

This essay establishes a first genealogical link between William E. Connolly's pluralist
thought and a recent mimetic turn—or re-turn of mimesis—in critical theory. Crafting new …

In this essay, I reconsider the constitution of democratic freedom in aesthetic terms. My
interest is in articulating a conception of aesthetic freedom that can be mapped onto a …

Staging Democracy responds to compelling calls in democratic theory for communication
and coalition across social difference by asking how we realize these ideals in concrete …

Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas (1871) has become a touchstone of democratic theory.
Commentators of unusual ideological range uphold the book as politically exemplary. This …

This book explores environments where art, imagination, and creative practice meet urban
spaces at the point where they connect to the digital world. It investigates relationships …

How does one speak the truth in a “post-truth” polity? This article turns to Oscar Wilde and
Theodor Adorno to develop an account of critique as mendacious truth-telling that mobilizes …

Chances are that if you're reading PMLA you have a stake in aesthetic education. We mean
that in the broadest, most practical sense. You're a teacher, and your teaching, at least …