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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... central to any republican or democratic political culture by exploring the boundaries that divide private from public life, civil from state authority, subjection from citizenship, in post-revolutionary political theory and cultural ...
... central points: that their interpretive struggles over the meaning of modern republicanism will focus on the heterogeneous remains of those revolutions; that their political struggles to achieve a democratic republic will concern the ...
... central to the self-understanding of those movements; third, it provides an anti-essentialist critique of modern identity-based political ideologies.27 The second implication of Lefort's argument is structural. As his own phrasing ...
... central terms of modernity originate only within the context of republicanism.39 The circularity of this claim is central to Warner's subsequent argument. If the story of the rise of democracy is that of the differentiation of civil and ...
... central concerns of Sentimental Bodies is to think critically about several clusters of terms that cultural and literary historians tend to use descriptively. These terms could be called the keywords of my argument: democracy ...
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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 |