Uncivil unions
Subtitle: the metaphysics of marriage in German idealism and romanticism
By: Adrian Daub
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780226136936
Subjects: Philosophy; Marriage; German literature; History and criticism; Marriage in literature; German Philosophy
Description: Discusses the Idealist and Romantic poets and philosophers in Germany in the early 19th century, who thought about marriage differently from their Enlightenment predecessors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Uncivil unions; title: The metaphysics of dignity: marriage in Kant and Fichte; title: The politics of the copula: love, marriage, and the question of judgment; title: "Marriage is the most exalted secret": Novalis on the metaphysics and semiotics of marriage; title: Marriage between chaos and product: Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel; title: Marriage and mediation: the product among the idealists; title: Marriage interrupted: Sophie Mereau's Blüthenalter der Empfindung; title: Transcendental masturbators: Jean Paul's Siebenkäs; title: The fate of marital autonomy in the nineteenth century; title: Epilogue: marriage after metaphysics.