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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... citizens they could become through the clarification and expansion of normative political principles. This need to abstract “regenerative” principles from “contaminating” practices leads Wollstonecraft to an ambivalent assessment of the ...
... citizen into himself,” Marx concludes in “On the Jewish Question,” “. . . only when man has recognized and organized his forces propres as social forces so that social force is no longer separated from him in the form of political force ...
... citizens, Marx collapses that opposition. What Wollstonecraft and Marx both undertheorize are the public sphere institutions that link the political forms of republicanism to their corresponding forms of embodiment. For reasons that the ...
... citizens to imagine forms of political authority that were rational and noncoercive to the degree that they were abstract and disembodied. Citizens, in other words, gained political power only insofar as they were able to represent ...
... citizens—at best. In theory, this contradiction applies to any citizen. In practice, however, the burden of corporeality falls unequally on those persons with bodies marked as nonwhite, nonmale, and/or economically dependent. Citizens ...
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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 |