LEADER 03819nam 22005651 450 001 9910150304803321 005 20170206101528.0 010 $a1-5013-1505-6 010 $a1-5013-1504-8 024 7 $a10.5040/9781501315053 035 $a(CKB)3710000000942794 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4742331 035 $a(OCoLC)963359051 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09260513 035 $a(PPN)227045939 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000942794 100 $a20170227d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFigures of natality $ereading the political in the age of Goethe /$fJoseph D. O'Neil 210 1$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (321 pages) 225 1 $aNew directions in German studies ;$vv. 17 311 $a1-5013-4372-6 311 $a1-5013-1502-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: Chapter 1: Lyric Births: Poetic Revolution and Maieutic Technique -- Chapter 2: Genre, Generation, and the Retreat of the Political -- Chapter 3: Ghostly Births: The Specter of Romanticism and the Maieutics of the Medium -- Chapter 4: "Not as in a mirror": Wilhelm Meister and the Haunting of Sovereignty -- Chapter 5: Kleist's Machiavellian Mothers: Institution, Relation, Distribution -- Conclusion: Split Summits and Bifurcated Maieutics: The Political Difference and the Future of Democracy. 330 $a"Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected, and the revolutionary. Using Hannah Arendt's concept of natality, Joseph O'Neil argues that Goethe, Schiller, and Kleist see birth as challenging paradigms of Romanticism as well as of Enlightenment, resisting the assimilation of the political to economics, science, or morality. They choose instead to preserve the conflicts and tensions at the heart of social, political, and poetic revolutions. In a historical reading, these tensions evolve from the idea of revolution as Arendt reads it in British North America to the social and economic questions that shape the French Revolution and from there to the question of the German nation. Alongside this geopolitical evolution, the ways of representing the political change, too, moving from the new as revolutionary eruption to economic metaphors of birth. More pressing still is the question of revolutionary subjectivity and political agency, and Goethe, Kleist, and Schiller have an answer that is remarkably close to that of Walter Benjamin, as that "secret index" through which each past age is "pointed toward redemption." Figures of Natality uncovers this index at the heart of scenes and products of birth in the age of Goethe."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 330 $a"Examines the work of Goethe, Kleist, and Schiller in the light of Hannah Arendt's concept of natality"--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aNew directions in German studies ;$vv. 17. 606 $aBirth (Philosophy) in literature 606 $aGerman literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zGermany$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aPolitics and literature$zGermany$xHistory$y19th century 606 $2Literary theory 615 0$aBirth (Philosophy) in literature. 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 676 $a830.9/006 700 $aO'Neil$b Joseph D.$01233461 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910150304803321 996 $aFigures of natality$92864720 997 $aUNINA