Jill Frank Books
Jill Frank is a professor of government at Cornell University specializing in ancient political thought.
Known for: Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon
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Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon
Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon is a scholarly collection that reexamines foundational ideas in political theory. Each entry explores a key concept—such as democracy, sovereignty, or freedom—through critical and interdisciplinary perspectives, challenging conventional definitions and proposing new frameworks for understanding political life.
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Conceptual Framework
Every political concept lives a double life. It has a genealogical past—inherited from the thinkers, institutions, and conflicts that shaped it—and a performative present, where it is invoked to act, to authorize, to challenge. In framing this lexicon, we began with the conviction that political lan...
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Democracy
Democracy’s power resides in its multiplicity. No single genealogy can contain it—from the assembly of citizens in classical Athens to participatory movements that disrupt contemporary liberal institutions. Democracy, we argue, has always exceeded the frameworks built to define or constrain it. In m...
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About Jill Frank
Jill Frank is a professor of government at Cornell University specializing in ancient political thought.
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