the metaphysics of marriage in German idealism and romanticism /
Adrian Daub.
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2012.
1 online resource (viii, 366 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Uncivil unions -- The metaphysics of dignity: marriage in Kant and Fichte -- The politics of the copula: love, marriage, and the question of judgment -- "Marriage is the most exalted secret": Novalis on the metaphysics and semiotics of marriage -- Marriage between chaos and product: Friedrich and Dorothea Schlegel -- Marriage and mediation: the product among the idealists -- Marriage interrupted: Sophie Mereau's Blüthenalter der Empfindung -- Transcendental masturbators: Jean Paul's Siebenkäs -- The fate of marital autonomy in the nineteenth century -- Epilogue: marriage after metaphysics.
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In this work, Adrian Daub presents an interdisciplinary look at the story of a generation of philosophers, poets, and intellectuals who turned away from theology, reason, common sense, and empirical observation to provide a purely metaphysical justification of marriage.
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Uncivil unions.
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German literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.