These ideoscapes are composed of elements of the Enlightenment world-view, which consists of a concatenation of ideas, terms and images, including ‘freedom’, ‘welfare,’ ‘rights’, ‘sovereignty’, ‘representation’, and the master term ‘democracy. The master-narrative of the Englightenment (and its many variants in England, France and the United States) was constructed with a certain internal logic and presupposed a certain relationship between reading, representation and the public sphere