Sentimental Bodies: Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early RepublicPrinceton University Press, 5 Okt 1998 - 217 halaman Sentimentalism, sex, the construction of the modern body, and the origins of American liberalism all come under scrutiny in this rich discussion of political life in the early republic. Here Bruce Burgett enters into debates over the "public sphere," a concept introduced by Jurgen Habermas that has led theorists to grapple with such polarities as public and private, polity and personality, citizenship and subjection. With the literary public sphere as his primary focus, Burgett sets out to challenge the Enlightenment opposition of reason and sentiment as the fundamental grid for understanding American political culture. |
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... with other modern (and postmodern) theorists. I will limit myself to three prominent examples: Michel Foucault, Elaine Scarry, and Judith Butler. For Foucault, the modern “intensification of the body” positions it at INTRODUCTION 17.
... positions it at the crux of the myriad “procedures of power that characterized the disciplines”—most notably the discourse of “sexuality.” But the body also provides a point of resistance within those “procedures”: “The rallying point ...
... positions “feeling” in a relation of exteriority to those public-sphere institutions within which “feelings” are contested and codified. As Donald Lowe has suggested, this underdevelopment secures a body that is both critically utopian ...
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