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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... practice, ideology and everyday life, civil society and the state, the body and the body politic. Sentimental Bodies enters into these critical debates by exploring the relations among sentiment, embodiment, and citizenship in the post ...
... practice. The questions this study addresses are not new. Mary Wollstonecraft, for one, concludes her 1794 history of the “origin and progress” of the French Revolution with a political critique that similarly interweaves the themes of ...
... practices leads Wollstonecraft to an ambivalent assessment of the Revolution. On the one hand, she paints a portrait ... practices of as yet contaminated bodies. The solution to that problem lies in the rational application of ...
... practice masks the real economic and, more generally, sociological determinants of those principles. Within this narrative, the American Revolution predictably becomes not exemplary, but merely one example—or even an exception—in a ...
... practice and ensure that that horizon never becomes identifiable with any historically specifiable set of actions or actors. In accordance with this distinction, Lefort separates “modern” from “classical” democracy by pointing to the ...
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Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic Bruce Burgett Limited preview - 1998 |
Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic Bruce Burgett No preview available - 1998 |
Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic Bruce Burgett No preview available - 2001 |