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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... refers to “the North American states only as an example” while, less than ten years later and after the failed European revolutions of 1848, Friedrich Engels alludes to “the special American conditions.”14 In The Eighteenth Brumaire of ...
... 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 structural boundary between political and social ...
... refer to as the “impossibility of the social”), Laclau and Mouffe revise traditional Marxist understandings of hegemony as a political strategy ultimately grounded in the sociological reality of class antagonism. Pursuing an anti ...
... refers to as a “metapolitics of speech”: “[the cultural meanings of print] are the basis for deciding who speaks, to whom, with what constraints, and with what legitimacy.”41 The resulting antinomy between embodiment and abstraction ...
... refers to as the autonomy of the individual's “spontaneous wish” to the heteronomous “code of manners” that makes that “wish” legible. Expanding on this contradiction, Barker-Benfield agrees with Laqueur, Wiegman, and others that 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 |