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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2017.
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Colección: | New directions in German studies ;
Volume 17. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.