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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... opinion formation (what Antonio Gramsci refers to as the “war of position”), “politics” expands to include virtually all forms of sociality, including intimate and corporeal relations. In doing so, it threatens to collapse the ...
... opinion, power and science and, on the other, the people who are subject to them.”21 For symbolic terms to remain nonideological, in other words, they must provide a regulative horizon for ideological practice and ensure that that ...
... opinion formation that are both accessible and influential. Habermas's recent, more theoretical writings extend this insight into the normative significance of official and unofficial public-sphere institutions to an analysis of the ...
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