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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... nature and weighs the consequences of human actions, that will be able to discern the cause, which has produced so ... natural, equal, civil and political rights, reduced the most cunning of the lower orders to practice fraud, and the ...
... natural feelings of man ... that on sudden occasions manifest themselves with all their pristine purity and vigour.”7 That Wollstonecraft is able to distinguish between these two apparently spontaneous forms of public affect—“momentary ...
... natural “feelings” of republican citizens, Marx collapses that opposition. What Wollstonecraft and Marx both undertheorize are the public sphere institutions that link the political forms of republicanism to their corresponding forms of ...
... natural determination, which was once linked to the person of the prince or to the existence of a nobility, leads to the emergence of a purely social society in which the people, the nation and the state take on the status of universal ...
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