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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Throughout history , individuals and institutions have turned to the body to lend
abstract concepts a sense of material ... To make a concept more credible and to
give it some degree of empirical reality , individuals and institutions relate it to the
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Throughout history , individuals and institutions have turned to the body to lend
abstract concepts a sense of material ... To make a concept more credible and to
give it some degree of empirical reality , individuals and institutions relate it to the
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24 And so , one cannot speak of the body without a notion of the disembodied ( i .
e . , the soul ) , just as one cannot speak of the immaterial without a concept of the
material . Thus , the distinction of matter from meaning makes conception of ...
24 And so , one cannot speak of the body without a notion of the disembodied ( i .
e . , the soul ) , just as one cannot speak of the immaterial without a concept of the
material . Thus , the distinction of matter from meaning makes conception of ...
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[ In the concept of separation , there lies already the concept of the reciprocity of
object and subject and the necessary presupposition of a whole of which object
and subject form the parts . ) 19 The concept of a reciprocity between subject and
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[ In the concept of separation , there lies already the concept of the reciprocity of
object and subject and the necessary presupposition of a whole of which object
and subject form the parts . ) 19 The concept of a reciprocity between subject and
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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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