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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... concludes her 1794 history of the “origin and progress” of the French Revolution with a political critique that similarly interweaves the themes of the body and the body politic. Drawing a scatological analogy between these two bodies ...
... concludes from this contrast, “meant that the enduring unity of the future political body was guaranteed not in the worldly institutions which this people had in common, but in the will of the people themselves.”13 Leaving aside for the ...
... 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, only then will human ...
... conclude by literalizing the metaphor of “institutionalization”: “The survival and extension of the public space is a political question ... that lies at the heart of democracy.”23 This rethinking of democracy has implications that are ...
... 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, associations and movements.”31 Sentimental Bodies ...
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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic Bruce Burgett Limited preview - 1998 |
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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic Bruce Burgett No preview available - 2001 |