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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... moral disapproval. We are now entering a colonialist phase in our attitudes to the body, full of paternalistic notions that conceal a ruthless exploitation carried out for its own good. This brutish creature must be housed, sparingly ...
... moral philosophy have kept a sure, though gradual pace.” An enlightened “public spirit” grounded in the “natural feelings of man” promises to substitute “taste” for “ennui,” “philosophy” for “imagination,” “sentiments of freedom” for ...
... moral philosophy” irreducible to its social determinants can prepare the “minds of the people” for a “state of perfection” or, for Marx, a universal proletarian class consciousness, freed from ideological struggle, provides the human ...
... moral” philosophy because both writers share a typically modern understanding of the body as both a ground and a site of political debate. In different ways, the focus on the body common to Wollstonecraft and Marx results from the ...
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