It is impossible to separate the content of a book from its form. In this study, Filipe Carreira da Silva and Mónica Brito Vieira expand our understanding of the history of social and political scholarship by examining how the entirety of a book mediates and constitutes meaning in ways that affect its substance, appropriation, and reception over time. Examining the evolving form of classic works of social and political thought, including W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk, G. H. Mead's Mind, Self, and Society, and Karl Marx's 1844 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, Carreira da Silva and Brito Vieira show that making these books involved many hands. They explore what publishers, editors, translators, and commentators accomplish by offering the reading public new versions of the works under consideration, examine debates about the intended meaning of the works and discussions over their present relevance, and elucidate the various ways in which content and material form are interwoven. In doing so, Carreira da Silva and Brito Vieira characterize the editorial process as a meaning-producing action involving both collaboration and an ongoing battle for the importance of the book form to a work's disciplinary belonging, ideological positioning, and political significance. Theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly researched, The Politics of the Book radically changes our understanding of what doing social and political theory--and its history--implies. It will be welcomed by scholars of book history, the history of social and political thought, and social and political theory.

The Politics of the Book: A Study on the Materiality of Ideas (Penn State Series in the History of the Book)

Literature & Fiction

Carreira Da Silva, Filipe

Brito Vieira, Mónica

History & Criticism

Penn State University Press

Democracy and the Politics of Silence (Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

What is representation? What does it mean when a politician represents citizens in government? How can citizens be represented beyond the boundaries of the nation-state? 
These are just some of the questions which will be answered by David Runciman and Mónica Brito Vieira as they explain why representation should be understood as one of the key concepts in modern politics. The first part of the book examines the historical roots of the concept of representation, from its origins in ancient Rome through to its role in the revolutionary politics of the modern world. The second looks at different varieties of representation – in law as well as politics. The final part asks how the concept of representation can help us think creatively about current and future challenges facing the world. Representation is too often treated as a secondary or qualifying idea – as in the phrase ‘representative democracy’. This book argues that we have this the wrong way round. Representation is the foundational idea in almost all areas of our political life. Making sense of representation in its own terms is crucial for seeing why democracy functions the way it does, and for exploring how it might function differently.

Representation (Key Concepts)

Politics & Social Sciences

Runciman, David

Politics & Government

Polity

Representation is the foundational idea in almost all areas of political life. This introductory text examines the historical roots of representation from ancient Rome to the present day, analysing the different varieties of representation and how they can help us think creatively about current and future challenges facing the world.

Representation

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