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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... 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 counterpart. Where the heirs to the American Revolution tend to ignore the sociological conditions that enabled and betrayed the political forms of modern republicanism, the heirs to the French Revolution tend to reduce those ...
... 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.
... liberal theories, which tend toward formalism when they attempt to stabilize that gap. The “revolutionary and unprecedented feature of democracy,” Lefort insists, lies in its institutionalization of the “locus of power” as an “empty ...
... liberal welfare state as the context within which social movements operate. The problem with the welfare state project, Habermas argues, is that it “continues to be nourished by a utopia of social labor [that] is losing its power to ...
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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 |