Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Reproducing enlightenment: paradoxes in the life of the body politic [[electronic resource] ] : literature and philosophy around 1800 / / Diana K. Reese



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Reese Diana K. <1965-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Reproducing enlightenment: paradoxes in the life of the body politic [[electronic resource] ] : literature and philosophy around 1800 / / Diana K. Reese Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (196 p.)
Disciplina: 830.9/006
Soggetto topico: Human reproduction in literature
Human reproduction - Philosophy
German literature - 18th century - History and criticism
German literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Philosophy, European - 18th century
Philosophy, European - 19th century
Enlightenment - Europe
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Another Reasoning Being -- Chapter Two: Generating Universals -- Chapter Three: Kleist's Penthesilea, Ein Trauerspiel -- Backmatter
Sommario/riassunto: Written at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics, Reproducing Enlightenment: Paradoxes of the Body Politic interrogates the abstraction of the bearer of rights in Enlightenment thought by exploring contradictions between reproductive labor and political representation in the ideal of democratic citizenship. Drawing parallels between new definitions of biological form in Kant's Critique of Judgment and his popular writings on Enlightenment, Reese's study reveals connections between naturalist inquiry and the political category of self-evidence around the turn of the 19th century. Pursuing this connection into Weimar-Classical era aesthetics, Reese's scholarship sets the backdrop against which she proposes to read the formal literary innovations of Mary Shelley and Heinrich von Kleist. The careful comparison of textual compositions by Shelley and Kleist shows how these two authors refuse organicist metaphor and excavate the paradoxes of Enlightenment attempts to theorize the equality of a disembodied subject. Reproducing Enlightenment traces two anti-classical poetics that arc beyond the concept of juridical and biological self-evidence to touch the dialectics and dilemmas of recognition at the foundation of social being.
Titolo autorizzato: Reproducing enlightenment: paradoxes in the life of the body politic  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-71442-2
9786612714429
3-11-021745-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456755903321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; ; 5.