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Episode: Lucia Rubinelli, "Constituent Power: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Description: "The intellectual historian has to start with the words." – Richard Whatmore, What is Intellectual History?When political theorists write about the principle of popular power, that is, who are the people and what kind of power do they have – the language of ‘constituent power’ is a key concept in this regard. In her new book, Constituent Power: A History (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Lucia Rubinelli, a researcher in the history of political thought at Robinson College, Cambridge, retraces a history of the language of constituent power. Her book examines five key moments from Sieyes and the French Revolution, Schmitt ov...