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Uncivil Unions : The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012

Online-Ressource (375 p.)

Englisch

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Uncivil Unions; Chapter 1: The Metaphysics of Dignity: Marriage in Kant and Fichte ; Chapter 2: The Politics of the Copula: Love, Marriage, and the Question of Judgment ; Chapter 3: "Marriage Is the Most Exalted Secret" : Novalis on the Metaphysics and Semiotics of Marriage ; Chapter 4: Marriage between Chaos and Product: Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel ; Chapter 5: Marriage and Mediation: The Product among the Idealists ; Chapter 6: Marriage Interrupted: Sophie Mereau's Blüthenalter der Empfindung

Chapter 7: Transcendental Masturbators: Jean Paul's Siebenkäs Chapter 8: The Fate of Marital Autonomy in the Nineteenth Century ; Epilogue: Marriage after Metaphysics; Abbreviations and Frequently Used Short Titles; Notes; Index

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Print version: Uncivil Unions : The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism

978-0-226-13693-6

978-0-226-13693-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2011

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

978-0-226-13695-0 ( : 45 (NL))

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HQ734 .D259 2012 ; HQ734.D259 2012

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LOC-SH: Electronic books ; Marriage -- Germany -- Philosophy ; Marriage in literature ; German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism ; Philosophy, German -- 19th century

"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 wh