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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The only way to maintain a claim to wholeness and totality in light of this
disruption is , as Frau Marthe asserted with Eve ' s honor , to rely on violence . For
Kleist , violence becomes the means to provide at least temporary stability and
the ...
The only way to maintain a claim to wholeness and totality in light of this
disruption is , as Frau Marthe asserted with Eve ' s honor , to rely on violence . For
Kleist , violence becomes the means to provide at least temporary stability and
the ...
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Büchner does not claim that totalities are impossible , simply that they are
radically incompatible with finite human experience ( “ Der ewige Widerspruch
zwischen dem , was ist in der Endlichkeit , und dem Ewigen , an das wir dasselbe
zu ...
Büchner does not claim that totalities are impossible , simply that they are
radically incompatible with finite human experience ( “ Der ewige Widerspruch
zwischen dem , was ist in der Endlichkeit , und dem Ewigen , an das wir dasselbe
zu ...
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philosophy directly ( Büchner portrays neither art nor ascetic values as a mean to
transcend social reality , and does not claim that there is a reality of higher ,
Platonic ideas behind the veil of the will ) . I argue here not for Schopenhauer ' s ...
philosophy directly ( Büchner portrays neither art nor ascetic values as a mean to
transcend social reality , and does not claim that there is a reality of higher ,
Platonic ideas behind the veil of the will ) . I argue here not for Schopenhauer ' s ...
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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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| 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 | die University of Virginia |
| Digitalisiert | 6. Mai 2008 |
| ISBN | 083875631X, 9780838756317 |
| Länge | 280 Seiten |
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