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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... significance. His prescription for “human emancipation” assumes, but never adequately theorizes, the institutions within which “man” will “recognize” and “organize” “his forces propres as social forces.” Where Wollstonecraft reifies the ...
... significance of the paradoxical installation and isolation of a “political stage” within society: “The disappearance of natural determination, which was once linked to the person of the prince or to the existence of a nobility, leads to ...
... significance of official and unofficial public-sphere institutions to an analysis of the liberal welfare state as the context within which social movements operate. The problem with the welfare state project, Habermas argues, is that it ...
... significance of modern republicanism and the Machiavellian virtue it invokes consists in its attack on both the ideological and structural presuppositions of the liberal consensus: first, republicanism legitimates an unending struggle ...
... significance of the body within modernity. Modern republicanism positions the body not only at, but also as the vanishing point of the body politic. The Politics of the Body While this historical recovery of republicanism resulted in ...
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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 |