UID:
almafu_9959231939202883
Format:
1 online resource (375 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-12602-7
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9786613529886
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0-226-13695-7
Content:
"What a strange invention marriage is!" wrote Kierkegaard. "Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affinity of souls, or is it a duty or a partnership . . . or is it a little of all that?" Like Kierkegaard a few decades later, many of Germany's most influential thinkers at the turn of the eighteenth century wondered about the nature of marriage but rejected the easy answers provided by biology and theology. In Uncivil Unions, Adrian Daub presents a truly 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. Through close readings of philosophers like Fichte and Schlegel, and novelists like Sophie Mereau and Jean Paul, Daub charts the development of this new concept of marriage with an insightful blend of philosophy, cultural studies, and theory. The author delves deeply into the lives and work of the romantic and idealist poets and thinkers whose beliefs about marriage continue to shape ideas about gender, marriage, and sex to the present day.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction. Uncivil Unions --
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Chapter One. The Metaphysics of Dignity: Marriage in Kant and Fichte --
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Chapter Two. The Politics of the Copula: Love, Marriage, and the Question of Judgment --
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Chapter Three. "Marriage Is the Most Exalted Secret": Novalis on the Metaphysics and Semiotics of Marriage --
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Chapter Four. Marriage between Chaos and Product: Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel --
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Chapter Five. Marriage and Mediation: The Product among the Idealists --
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Chapter Six. Marriage Interrupted: Sophie Mereau's Blüthenalter der Empfindung --
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Chapter Seven. Transcendental Masturbators: Jean Paul's Siebenkäs --
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Chapter Eight. The Fate of Marital Autonomy in the Nineteenth Century --
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Epilogue. Marriage after Metaphysics --
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Abbreviations and Frequently Used Short Titles --
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Notes --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-226-13693-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7208/9780226136950
