Uncivil unions : the metaphysics of marriage in German idealism and romanticism / Adrian Daub.

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Daub, Adrian

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 366 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226136950
0226136957
1280126027
9781280126024
9786613529886
6613529885

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Uncivil unions.DDC classification:

306.810943/09034 23

LOC classification:

HQ734 .D259 2012eb

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300 | 100 | 830

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Contents:

Uncivil unions -- The metaphysics of dignity: marriage in Kant and Fichte -- The politics of the copula: love, marriage, and the question of judgment -- "Marriage is the most exalted secret": Novalis on the metaphysics and semiotics of marriage -- Marriage between chaos and product: Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel -- Marriage and mediation: the product among the idealists -- Marriage interrupted: Sophie Mereau's Blüthenalter der Empfindung -- Transcendental masturbators: Jean Paul's Siebenkäs -- The fate of marital autonomy in the nineteenth century -- Epilogue: marriage after metaphysics.

Summary: In this work, Adrian Daub presents an interdisciplinary look at the story of a generation of philosophers, poets, and intellectuals who turned away from theology, reason, common sense, and empirical observation to provide a purely metaphysical justification of marriage.

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In this work, Adrian Daub presents an interdisciplinary look at the story of a generation of philosophers, poets, and intellectuals who turned away from theology, reason, common sense, and empirical observation to provide a purely metaphysical justification of marriage.

English.

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