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Autore |
Payne Charlton |
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The epic imaginary [[electronic resource] ] : political power and its legitimations in eighteenth-century German literature / / Charlton Payne |
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Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, c2012 |
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1-283-62831-7 |
3-11-027199-0 |
9786613940766 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studien zur deutschen Literatur, , 0081-7236 ; ; Bd. 197 |
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German literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
Politics and literature - Germany - History - 18th century |
Epic literature, German - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The Epic Imaginary in Eighteenth-Century German Literature -- 1. The Epic Genre and the Question of Legitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Poetics -- 2. The Epic Prosody of the Sublime Nation: Klopstock's Messias -- Excursus: The Passions of Klopstock and Badiou -- 3. The Politics and Poetics of Epic World Citizenship in Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea. -- 4. Wieland's Parodic Humanism -- Epilogue: Brentano's Romanzen vom Rosenkranz and the Romantic Epic -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names |
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This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power. Manifest in eighteenth-century poetics above all in the disjunction between programmatic definitions of the epic and actual experiments with the genre, this ambivalence can also arise within a single epic over the course of its narrative. The |
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present study thus traces how particular eighteenth-century epics explore an originary incompleteness of political power and its narrative legitimations. The first chapter sketches an overview of how eighteenth-century writers construct an imaginary epic genre that is assigned the task of performing the cultural work of legitimating political communities by narrating their allegedly unifying origins and borders. The subsequent chapters, however, explore how the practice of epic storytelling in works by Klopstock, Goethe, Wieland, and, in an epilogue, Brentano enact the disruptive potential of poetic language and narrative to question the legitimations of imaginary political origins and unities. |
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UNINA9910450545603321 |
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Autore |
Waldron Jeremy |
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God, Locke, and equality : Christian foundations of John Locke's political thought / / Jeremy Waldron [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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1-107-13218-5 |
1-280-41839-7 |
1-139-14766-8 |
0-511-17823-9 |
0-511-06419-5 |
0-511-05786-5 |
0-511-33048-0 |
0-511-61392-X |
0-511-07265-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Equality - Religious aspects - Christianity |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-254) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Citations and abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Adam and Eve; 3 Species |
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and the Shape of Equality; 4 "The Democratic Intellect"; 5 Kings, Fathers, Voters, Subjects, and Crooks; 6 "Disproportionate and Unequal Possession"; 7 "By Our Saviour's Interpretation"; 8 Tolerating Atheists?; Bibliography; Index |
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This is a concise and profound book from one of the world's leading political and legal philosophers about a major theme, equality, and the proposition that humans are all one another's equals. Jeremy Waldron explores the implications of this fundamental tenet for law, politics, society and economy in the company of John Locke, whose work Waldron regards 'as well-worked-out a theory of basic equality as we have in the canon of political philosophy'. Throughout the text, which is based on the Carlyle Lectures given in Oxford in 1999, Jeremy Waldron discusses contemporary approaches to equality and rival interpretations of Locke, and this dual agenda gives the whole an unusual degree of accessibility and intellectual excitement, of interest to philosophers, political theorists, lawyers and theologians around the world. |
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