Becoming human : romantic anthropology and the embodiment of freedom / Chad Wellmon.
| Author/creator | Wellmon, Chad, 1976- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010. |
| Description | viii, 326 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Literature and philosophy Literature and philosophy. ^A298190 |
| 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." |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-321) and index. |
| LCCN | 2010024358 |
| ISBN | 9780271037349 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0271037342 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | BD450 .W45 2010 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |