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

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Reese, Diana K, 1965-

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TextLanguage: English, German Series: Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 5.Publication details: Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 183 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9783110217452
3110217457
9783110206005
3110206005

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reproducing enlightenment.DDC classification:

830.9/006 22

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PT289 .R38 2009eb

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Contents:

Frontmatter; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: Another Reasoning Being; Chapter Two: Generating Universals; Chapter Three: Kleist's Penthesilea, Ein Trauerspiel; Backmatter.

Summary: Written at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics, Reproducing Enlightenment: Paradoxes of the Body Politic undertakes readings of literary and philosophical texts, ranging from Immanuel Kant, Mary Shelley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm von Humboldt and Heinrich von Kleist, to explore the dilemma of reproduction as a privileged figure for marking gender, culture and class distinctions against the formality of the emergent democratic subject around 1800. In particular, this study mines Shelley and Kleist for signs of social being lost to enlig.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-177) and index.

Frontmatter; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: Another Reasoning Being; Chapter Two: Generating Universals; Chapter Three: Kleist's Penthesilea, Ein Trauerspiel; Backmatter.

Written at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics, Reproducing Enlightenment: Paradoxes of the Body Politic undertakes readings of literary and philosophical texts, ranging from Immanuel Kant, Mary Shelley, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Wilhelm von Humboldt and Heinrich von Kleist, to explore the dilemma of reproduction as a privileged figure for marking gender, culture and class distinctions against the formality of the emergent democratic subject around 1800. In particular, this study mines Shelley and Kleist for signs of social being lost to enlig.