Title Reforming the moral subject : ethics and sexuality in Central Europe, 1890-1930 / Tracie Matysik

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 302 pages) Contents Introduction : critical ethics, or the subject of reform -- An ethics of Gesellschaft -- The "new ethic" : a particularist challenge -- Conflicted sexualities and conflicted secularisms -- Global influences, local responses -- Moral laws and impossible laws : the "female homosexual" and the Criminal Code -- Social matters : social democracy and the ethics of materialism -- Losses and unlikely legacies : psychoanalysis and femininity -- Afterword : moral citizenship, or ethics beyond the law Summary "Reforming the Moral Subject explores a movement known as "ethics reform" that flourished in Central Europe between 1890 and 1930. Tracie Matysik examines the works of German-speaking intellectuals and activists - moral philosophers, sociologists, legal theorists, pedagogy specialists, psychoanalysts, sexual liberationists, and others - who discovered in the language of ethics a means to revitalize the public sphere." "Matysik's compelling intellectual and cultural history of ethics and moral subjectivity reframes the nature of German liberalism and intellectual activism from the end of the nineteenth century until the interwar period."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-289) and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Association Mitteleuropa gnd Subject Ethical culture movement -- Europe, Central -- History -- 19th century Ethical culture movement -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century Sexual ethics -- Europe, Central -- History -- 19th century Sexual ethics -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century Ethics, Modern -- 19th century. Ethics, Modern -- 20th century. Ethics, Modern. HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany. Ethical culture movement Ethics, Modern Intellectual life Moral conditions Sexual ethics Ethik Sexualität SUBJECT Europe, Central -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Europe, Central -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Europe, Central -- Moral conditions Subject Central Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501724435 1501724436

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