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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... narrative, the American Revolution 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 ...
... narrative are as well known as those of its liberal counterpart. Where the heirs to the American Revolution tend to ... narratives, these two contradictory determinations of the essence of a truly democratic republic, then, a consensus ...
... narratives of the past. If this formulation seems paradoxical, there is good reason for it. As Lefort points out, the democratic politicization of social relations transforms the act of writing history into a political performance with ...
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