1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784236703321

Autore

Fitzgerald Christina M

Titolo

The drama of masculinity and medieval English guild culture [[electronic resource] /] / Christina M. Fitzgerald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basingstoke, Hampshire, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36333-2

9786611363338

0-230-60499-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

The new Middle Ages

Disciplina

307.76081/0942

Soggetti

Masculinity - England - History - To 1500

Guilds - England - History - To 1500

Drama, Medieval - History and criticism

Men - England - Social life and customs

England Social life and customs 1066-1485

England Social conditions 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Men in the Household, Guild, and City; 2 The Domestic Scene: Patriarchal Fantasies and Anxieties in the Family and Guild; 3 Male Homosocial Communities and Public Life; 4 Acting Like a Man: The Solitary Christ and Masculinity; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study argues that late medieval English 'mystery plays' were about masculinity as much as Christian theology, modes of devotion, or civic self-consciousness. Performed repeatedly by generations of merchants and craftsmen, these Biblical plays produced fantasies and anxieties of middle class, urban masculinity, many of which are familiar today.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9911046605203321

Autore

Herdt Jennifer A.

Titolo

Forming Humanity : Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition / / Jennifer A. Herdt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

9780226618517

022661851X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 pages)

Collana

Chicago scholarship online

Disciplina

170.943

Soggetti

Philosophy, German - 18th century

Philosophy, German - 19th century

Humanism - Germany - History - 18th century

Humanism - Germany - History - 19th century

Moral development - Germany

Bildungsromans - History and criticism

Philosophy and religion - Germany - History - 18th century

Philosophy and religion - Germany - History - 19th century

Religion and culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. From Paideia to Humanism -- 2. Pietism and the Problem of Human Craft (Menschen-Kunst) -- 3. The Harmonious Harp-Playing of Humanity: J. G. Herder -- 4. Ethical Formation and the Invention of the Religion of Art -- 5. The Rise of the Bildungsroman and the Commodification of Literature -- 6. Authorship and Its Resignation in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister -- 7. "The Bildung of Self-Consciousness Itself towards Science": Hegel -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Kant's proclamation of humankind's emergence from "self-incurred immaturity" left his contemporaries with a puzzle: What models should we use to sculpt ourselves if we no longer look to divine grace or received authorities? Deftly uncovering the roots of this question in



Rhineland mysticism, Pietist introspection, and the rise of the bildungsroman, Jennifer A. Herdt reveals bildung, or ethical formation, as the key to post-Kantian thought. This was no simple process of secularization, in which human beings took responsibility for something they had earlier left in the hands of God. Rather, theorists of bildung, from Herder through Goethe to Hegel, championed human agency in self-determination while working out the social and political implications of our creation in the image of God. While bildung was invoked to justify racism and colonialism by stigmatizing those deemed resistant to self-cultivation, it also nourished ideals of dialogical encounter and mutual recognition. Herdt reveals how the project of forming humanity lives on in our ongoing efforts to grapple with this complicated legacy.