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Uncivil unions : the metaphysics of marriage in German idealism and romanticism / Adrian Daub.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Daub, Adrian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Marriage > Germany > Philosophy.
Philosophy, German > 19th century.
Marriage in literature.
German literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
German literature.
Marriage > Philosophy.
Philosophy, German.
Germany.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of 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.

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