Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early Nineteenth-century German LiteratureThis book analyzes wounded human bodies in early nineteenth-century German literature and traces their connection to changing philosophical models of the self. It argues that literary representations and metaphors of violence against the body not only offer powerful physical referents for a concept of self, but that they also define violence as an integral component of the self. |
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One finds in Brentano many components that will appear in a similar form more
than a century later in Sigmund Freud ' s ... The wounded body appears when
individuals and the power system that defines them come into conflict , that is at ...
One finds in Brentano many components that will appear in a similar form more
than a century later in Sigmund Freud ' s ... The wounded body appears when
individuals and the power system that defines them come into conflict , that is at ...
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[ It is true that I stand alone , and appear among them without a name . But cannot
one alone , if he is a man , do more than hundreds who are but fragments of men
? ( 73 ) ] The Mensch in this passage contrasts with the fragmented pieces of ...
[ It is true that I stand alone , and appear among them without a name . But cannot
one alone , if he is a man , do more than hundreds who are but fragments of men
? ( 73 ) ] The Mensch in this passage contrasts with the fragmented pieces of ...
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They build ideal systems from a rhetoric of fragmented bodies , unaware that
these fragmented bodies will appear in reality . ... however , never finds an exact
correlate in empirical reality ; only the violence inherent in its structure appears .
They build ideal systems from a rhetoric of fragmented bodies , unaware that
these fragmented bodies will appear in reality . ... however , never finds an exact
correlate in empirical reality ; only the violence inherent in its structure appears .
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Inhalt
Acknowledgments | 9 |
We think of nothing excellent without | 36 |
To find a home only in the deep | 78 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Crafting Flesh, Crafting the Self: Violence and Identity in Early Nineteenth-century German Literature |
| Autor/in | John B. Lyon |
| Verlag | Bucknell University Press, 2006 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 30. Mai 2008 |
| ISBN | 083875631X, 9780838756317 |
| Länge | 280 Seiten |
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