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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... Chapter 5 is reprinted from Arizona Quarterly 52 (1996): 1–25, by permission of the Regents of the University of Arizona. Chapter 6 is reprinted from Genders 27 (1998). Finally, and most importantly, I would like to thank (too weak a ...
... application of democratic and republican principles.4 By focusing on the “excrementious humors” of the Revolution, Wollstonecraft's “philosophical eye” penetrates the body politic, assuring her reader that “reason 4 CHAPTER 1.
... predictably becomes not exemplary, but merely one example—or even an exception—in a teleological history that equates human liberation with the socialist realization of democracy. Karl Marx's critique of liberalism in 6 CHAPTER 1.
... liberal 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.
... chapter in Sentimental Bodies traces this structural observation through the hisgered way torical writings of Hannah Arendt and Jürgen Habermas. Despite 10 CHAPTER 1.
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