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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Origin: United Kingdom (Imported)

ISBN 13: 9781501343728

Condition: Brandnew

Binding: paperback

Pages: 320

Dimensons: 140 x 215 x 25 | 432 (gram)

---------------------------------------- Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected, and the revolutionary. Using Hannah Arendt''s concept of natality, Joseph O''Neil argues that Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist see birth as challenging paradigms of Romanticism as well as of Enlightenment, resisting the assimilation of the political to economics, science, or morality. They choose instead to preserve the conflicts and tensions at the heart of social, political, and poetic revolutions. In a historical reading, these tensions evolve from the idea of revolution as Arendt reads it in British North America to the social and economic questions that shape the French Revolution, culminating in a consideration of the culture of the modern republic as such.

Alongside this geopolitical evolution, the ways of representing the political change, too, moving from the new as revolutionary eruption to economic metaphors of birth. More pressing still is the question of revolutionary subjectivity and political agency, and Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist have an answer that is remarkably close to that of Walter Benjamin, as that "secret index†? through which each past age is "pointed toward redemption.†? Figures of Natality uncovers this index at the heart of scenes and products of birth in the age of Goethe.

Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, thuế nhập khẩu (đối với đơn hàng giao từ nước ngoài có giá trị trên 1 triệu đồng).....

Tác giả: Colleen Hoover

Sách - Figures of Natality - Reading the Political in the Age of Goethe by Dr. Joseph D. O'Neil (UK edition, paperback)