| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 366 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Marriage -- Germany -- Philosophy.
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Marriage. |
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Germany. |
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Philosophy. |
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Philosophy, German -- 19th century.
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Philosophy, German. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Marriage in literature.
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Marriage in literature. |
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German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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German literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Subject |
Marriage. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Daub, Adrian. Uncivil unions. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012 9780226136936 (DLC) 2011029107 (OCoLC)742339156 |
| ISBN |
9780226136950 (electronic book) |
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0226136957 (electronic book) |
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1280126027 |
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9781280126024 |
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9780226136936 |
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0226136930 |
| Standard No. |
9786613529886 |
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