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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... civil society and the state, the body and the body politic. Sentimental Bodies enters into these critical debates by exploring the relations among sentiment, embodiment, and citizenship in the post-revolutionary United States. Drawing ...
... civil from state authority, subjection from citizenship, in post-revolutionary political theory and cultural practice. The questions this study addresses are not new. Mary Wollstonecraft, for one, concludes her 1794 history of the ...
... civil society and the state as being 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 ...
... civil society.” “The political issue,” they conclude, “is how to introduce public spaces into state and economic institutions ... by establishing a continuity with network of a societal communication consisting of public spheres ...
... civil and state power, the liberation of the private individual, and the triumph of the national people, then how does that story account for the emergence in the same period of the very terms—“society,” “individual,” “people”—that make ...
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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 |