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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... oppositions that have haunted political discourse at least since the democratic revolutions of the late eighteenth century: literature and politics, theory and practice, ideology and everyday life, civil society and the state, the body ...
... oppositions that include such familiar pairings as political and social, public and private, idealism and materialism, rationality and sentimentality. Yet both analyses depend essentially on the stability of these oppositions. More ...
... opposition between the momentary “emotions” of democratic bodies and the natural “feelings” of republican citizens, Marx collapses that opposition. What Wollstonecraft and Marx both undertheorize are the public sphere institutions that ...
... opposition between structure and ideology or, in his own (quasi-Lacanian) terms, between “symbolic” and “imaginary” forms of power. An essay on Tocqueville, for example, applauds Democracy in America for suggesting that the “symbolic ...
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