Becoming human : romantic anthropology and the embodiment of freedom / Chad Wellmon.
"Examines the crisis of a late eighteenth-century anthropology as it relates to the emergence of a modern consciousness that sees itself as condemned to draw its norms and very self-understanding from itself"--Provided by publisher.
| Uniform Title: | Literature and philosophy.
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| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2010], ©2010.
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| Series: | Literature and philosophy.
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| Physical Description: | viii, 326 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Pt. 1. The historical problem
- Proto-anthropology and the discovery of reflexivity
- Pt. 2. A provisional (Kantian) solution
- Cultivating freedom : Kant's affective ethics
- Freedom, between nature and reason : Kant's pragmatic anthropology
- Testing the human : Kant and Forster on the differences of race and the possibilities of culture
- Pt. 3.
- Three responses to Kant
- Poesie as anthropology : Schleiermacher, colonial history, and the ethics of ethnography
- Lyrical feeling : Novalis's anthropology of the senses
- The body of language : Goethe, Humboldt, and the "lively gaze".