Becoming human : romantic anthropology and the embodiment of freedom / Chad Wellmon.

Author/creator Wellmon, Chad, 1976-
Format Book
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010.
Descriptionviii, 326 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesLiterature 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-321) and index.
LCCN 2010024358
ISBN9780271037349 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0271037342 (cloth : alk. paper)

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