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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Lavater thus views the body as an object , an other that can yield truth and that is
subject to the laws of reason , a sign that can be read . He sees in the body not
multiplicity , but singularity of meaning . In contrast to Lavater ' s science of ...
Lavater thus views the body as an object , an other that can yield truth and that is
subject to the laws of reason , a sign that can be read . He sees in the body not
multiplicity , but singularity of meaning . In contrast to Lavater ' s science of ...
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53 At the end of the eighteenth century the dominant discourse of reason viewed
the body as an other , not part of the self . Accompanying this was a swelling
undercurrent that desired to ground the self in bodily experience and nonrational
...
53 At the end of the eighteenth century the dominant discourse of reason viewed
the body as an other , not part of the self . Accompanying this was a swelling
undercurrent that desired to ground the self in bodily experience and nonrational
...
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Only through exercising reason can one become aware of the limits of one ' s
knowledge and recognize what is available to human cognition . Only through
reason can one have transcendental ideas ( of morality , the divine , and so on ) .
Only through exercising reason can one become aware of the limits of one ' s
knowledge and recognize what is available to human cognition . Only through
reason can one have transcendental ideas ( of morality , the divine , and so on ) .
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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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