Reconstituting the body politic : enlightenment, public culture and the invention of aesthetic autonomy

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Reconstituting the body politic : enlightenment, public culture and the invention of aesthetic autonomy

Title remainder

enlightenment, public culture and the invention of aesthetic autonomy

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Jonathan M. Hess

Creator

• Hess, Jonathan M., 1965-

Subject

• Criticism -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
• Enlightenment -- Germany
• German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• Germany -- Politics and government -- 1740-1806
• Politics and literature -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
• Aesthetics, German -- 18th century

Language

eng

Summary

• In Reconstituting the Body Politic, Hess explores the moment in late eighteenth-century Germany that witnessed the emergence of two concepts that marked the modern era: the political concept of the public sphere and the doctrine of aesthetic autonomy. By considering the extent to which, at its very inception, the concept of aesthetic autonomy is inextricably intertwined with the emergence of the concept of the public sphere, he offers both a historical study of the political conditions that produced this concept and a contribution to contemporary literary and political theory. --
• Hess argues for an understanding of these concepts as functionally interdependent, and he reflects on what the interdependence might mean for the practice of literary and cultural criticism today. His work will interest not only Germanists and critical theorists but also art historians and historians of philosophy and political thought. --

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• Kritik (Detroit, Mich.)

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Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

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