| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 366 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Marriage -- Germany -- Philosophy
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Philosophy, German -- 19th century.
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Marriage in literature.
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German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Marriage.
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German literature
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Marriage in literature
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Marriage -- Philosophy
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Philosophy, German
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Deutscher Idealismus
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Romantik
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Ehe
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Philosophie
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Deutsch
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Literatur
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Ehe Motiv
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226136950 |
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0226136957 |
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1280126027 |
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9781280126024 |
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9786613529886 |
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6613529885 |
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