LEADER 03395oam 22006374a 450 001 9910524703103321 005 20230621135348.0 010 $a0-8018-1008-6 010 $a1-4214-3503-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000010461096 035 $a(OCoLC)1131890685 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78489 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88945 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29138977 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29138977 035 $a(oapen)doab88945 035 $a(OCoLC)1549520270 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010461096 100 $a20691002d1969 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVox Populi$eEssays in the History of an Idea 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2020 210 1$aBaltimore,$cJohns Hopkins Press$d[1969] 210 4$dİ[1969] 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 292 p.)$cillus., port 225 0 $aSeminars in the history of ideas 311 08$a1-4214-3504-7 311 08$a1-4214-3505-5 320 $aBibliography: p. [278]-286. 327 $aCover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Publisher's Note -- Apologia -- I. The Proverb's Annals -- II. Who Are the People? -- III. The People in Literature -- IV. The People as Poet -- V. The People in Art -- VI. The People as Artist -- VII. The People as Musician -- VIII. Egalitarianism -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aOriginally published in 1969. The proverb vox populi, vox Dei first appeared in a work by Alcuin (ca. 798), who wrote that "the people [] are to be led, not followed. [] Nor are those to be listened to who are accustomed to say, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God.'" Tracing the changing meaning of the saying through European history, George Boas finds that "the people" are not an easily identifiable group. For many centuries the butt of jokes and the substance of comic relief in serious drama, the people became in time an object of pity and, later, of aesthetic appeal. Popular opinion, despised in ancient Rome, was something sought, after the French Revolution. The first essay documents the use of the titular proverb through the eighteenth century. In the next six essays, Boas attempts to determine who the people were and how writers and philosophers have regarded them throughout history. He also examines the people as the creators of literature, art, and music, and as the subject of others' artistic representations. In a final essay, he discusses egalitarianism, which has given a voice to the common person. Animating Boas's account is his own belief in the importance of the individual's voice?as opposed to the voice of the masses, which is by no means necessarily that of God or reason. 410 0$aSeminar in the History of Ideas Series 606 $aArts 606 $aSocial classes 606 $aGod$xWill 606 $aProverbs 606 $aPublic opinion 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArts. 615 0$aSocial classes. 615 0$aGod$xWill. 615 0$aProverbs. 615 0$aPublic opinion. 676 $a301.1 700 $aBoas$b George$f1891-1980.$044986 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524703103321 996 $aVox Populi$92784160 997 $aUNINA