Reforming the moral subject
Subtitle: ethics and sexuality in Central Europe, 1890-1930
By: Tracie Matysik.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780801447129
Subjects: Ethical culture movement -- Europe, Central -- History -- 19th century; Ethical culture movement -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century; Sexual ethics -- Europe, Central -- History -- 19th century; Sexual ethics -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century; Ethics, Modern -- 19th century; Ethics, Modern -- 20th century; Europe, Central -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Europe, Central -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Europe, Central -- Moral conditions
Description: "Reforming the Moral Subject explores a movement known as "ethics reform" that flourished in Central Europe between 1890 and 1930. Tracie Matysik examines the works of German-speaking intellectuals and activists - moral philosophers, sociologists, legal theorists, pedagogy specialists, psychoanalysts, sexual liberationists, and others - who discovered in the language of ethics a means to revitalize the public sphere." "Matysik's compelling intellectual and cultural history of ethics and moral subjectivity reframes the nature of German liberalism and intellectual activism from the end of the nineteenth century until the interwar period."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : critical ethics, or, the subject of reform; title: An ethics of Gesellschaft; title: The "new ethic" : a particularist challenge; title: Conflicted sexualities and conflicted secularisms; title: Global influences, local responses; title: Moral laws and impossible laws : the "female homosexual" and the Criminal Code; title: Social matters : social democracy and the ethics of materialism; title: Losses and unlikely legacies : psychoanalysis and femininity; title: Afterword : moral citizenship, or, ethics beyond the law.