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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... leads Wollstonecraft to an ambivalent assessment of the Revolution. On the one hand, she paints a portrait of the lower classes that even Burke could admire: “The concourse, at first, consisted mostly of market women, and the lowest ...
... lead them astray from “The shift from the republic to the people,” Arendt concludes from this contrast, “meant that ... leads its author to abstract political from social issues, and then to allegorize that distinction through reference ...
... leads Engels to represent the United States not only as an exception within an otherwise universal narrative, but also as a displaced example of European false consciousness, a sort of lumpenfrance. The political effects of this ...
... leads to the emergence of a purely social society in which the people, the nation and the state take on the status of universal entities, and in which any individual or group can be accorded the same status.”18 No longer identifiable ...
... leads Lefort to 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 ...
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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 |