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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... attempting to realize a “state of perfection for which the minds of the people were not sufficiently prepared.”9 The result, Wollstonecraft argues, is the revolutionary terrorists' failure to constitute and maintain a republican body ...
... attempt to purify the political sphere of its social contaminants and the socialist attempt to reduce that sphere to its social determinants both betray the novelty of the modern “democratic adventure.” For 8 CHAPTER 1.
... attempt to close the gap between political and social relations. It also contrasts with liberal theories, which tend toward formalism when they attempt to stabilize that gap. The “revolutionary and unprecedented feature of democracy ...
... attempt by a social movement to dominate by inhabiting the symbolic space of modern democratic sovereignty, the very institution of such a space acts to preclude its inhabitation by introducing an element of negativity into society ...
... attempt to come to terms with the emergent individualistic society that threatened to destroy once and for all the communion and benevolence that civilized man had always considered the ideal of human behavior.”34 Though nostalgically ...
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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic Bruce Burgett Limited preview - 1998 |
Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic Bruce Burgett No preview available - 1998 |
Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic Bruce Burgett No preview available - 2001 |