Written at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics, Reproducing
Enlightenment: Paradoxes of the Body Politic interrogates the
abstraction of the bearer of rights in Enlightenment thought by
exploring contradictions between reproductive labor and political
representation in the ideal of democratic citizenship. Drawing
parallels between new definitions of biological form in Kant's
Critique of Judgment and his popular writings on Enlightenment,
Reese's study reveals connections between naturalist inquiry and
the political category of self-evidence around the turn of the 19th
century. Pursuing this connection into Weimar-Classical era
aesthetics, Reese's scholarship sets the backdrop against which she
proposes to read the formal literary innovations of Mary Shelley
and Heinrich von Kleist. The careful comparison of textual
compositions by Shelley and Kleist shows how these two authors
refuse organicist metaphor and excavate the paradoxes of
Enlightenment attempts to theorize the equality of a disembodied
subject. Reproducing Enlightenment traces two anti-classical
poetics that arc beyond the concept of juridical and biological
self-evidence to touch the dialectics and dilemmas of recognition
at the foundation of social being.
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