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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... suggesting that, unlike the former, the latter was driven on by “[n]o disorderly passions ...; on the contrary, it proceeded hand and hand with a love of order and legality.”11 Arendt's On Revolution repeats this argument by contrasting ...
... suggesting that the “symbolic” significance of terms like “'fellow,' 'society' and 'humanity' can only be reconciled with freedom if the representation of their realization is held in check”: “The desire to realize it would result in a ...
... suggests that the body appears within political discourse only through its negation, the practice of self-abstraction reveals that this principle operates differentially with respect to different forms of embodiment: “It is a ground ...
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