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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... social practices and the enlightened citizens they could become through the clarification and expansion of normative ... social practices of as yet contaminated bodies. The solution to that problem lies in the rational application of ...
... social rather than political concerns. The “will of the people,” for each of these writers, threatens to collapse the distinction between political and social life upon which the stability and durability of the republican body politic ...
... social forces so that social force is no longer separated from him in the form of political force, only then will human emancipation be completed.”17 Between these two antithetical narratives, these two contradictory determinations of ...
... social life without which the term “politics” itself would be meaningless. Understood in the narrow sense as a name for the public space of that ideological struggle, “politics” shores up the boundary between political and social life ...
... social society in which the people, the nation and the state take on the status of universal entities, and in which ... social.20 Lefort's understanding of democracy consequently differs from socialist theories, which tend toward ...
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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 |