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Figures of natality : reading the political in the age of Goethe /

"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 par...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Neil, Joseph D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Colección:New directions in German studies ; Volume 17.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • FC; New Directions in German Studies; Volumes in the series:; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Lyric Births: Poetic Revolution and Maieutic Technique; 2 Genre, Generation, and the Retreat of the Political; 3 Ghostly Births: The Specter of Romanticism and the Maieutics of the Medium; 4 "Not as in a mirror": Wilhelm Meister and the Haunting of Sovereignty; 5 Kleist's Machiavellian Mothers: Institution, Relation, Distribution; Conclusion: Split Summits and Bifurcated Maieutics: The Political Difference and the Future of Democracy.