Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early RepublicSentimentalism, sex, the construction of the modern body, and the origins of American liberalism all come under scrutiny in this rich discussion of political life in the early republic. Here Bruce Burgett enters into debates over the "public sphere," a concept introduced by Jurgen Habermas that has led theorists to grapple with such polarities as public and private, polity and personality, citizenship and subjection. With the literary public sphere as his primary focus, Burgett sets out to challenge the Enlightenment opposition of reason and sentiment as the fundamental grid for understanding American political culture. |
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... transform the “inner dynamic of subsystems regulated by money and power.”30 Expanding on this insight, Andrew Arato and Jean Cohen locate Habermas's analysis as a continuation of the “project of the democratic revolutions which created ...
... transformation without holding constant the value-terms of modernity?”40 Warner's largely convincing argument assigns the institutions and ideologies of print capitalism a determining role in this historical drama. Like Wollstonecraft's ...
... transformed from a “sign of” into a “foundation for civil society.”52 As Robyn Wiegman and others have suggested, one effect of this shift lies in the body's newfound ability to naturalize social and political inequalities through ...
... transform the historical significance of the body itself (the sensational manifestations of republican “phenomena”). And it is this dialectic between publication and the body that makes the rhetorical question J. G. Ballard poses in my ...
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