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Figures of Natality - Reading the Political in the Age of Goethe (Hardcover)
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Figures of Natality - Reading the Political in the Age of Goethe (Hardcover)
Series: New Directions in German Studies
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Figures of Natality reads metaphors and narratives of birth in the
age of Goethe (1770-1832) as indicators of the new, the unexpected,
and the revolutionary. Using Hannah Arendt's concept of natality,
Joseph O'Neil argues that Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist see birth as
challenging paradigms of Romanticism as well as of Enlightenment,
resisting the assimilation of the political to economics, science,
or morality. They choose instead to preserve the conflicts and
tensions at the heart of social, political, and poetic revolutions.
In a historical reading, these tensions evolve from the idea of
revolution as Arendt reads it in British North America to the
social and economic questions that shape the French Revolution,
culminating in a consideration of the culture of the modern
republic as such. Alongside this geopolitical evolution, the ways
of representing the political change, too, moving from the new as
revolutionary eruption to economic metaphors of birth. More
pressing still is the question of revolutionary subjectivity and
political agency, and Lessing, Goethe, and Kleist have an answer
that is remarkably close to that of Walter Benjamin, as that
"secret index" through which each past age is "pointed toward
redemption." Figures of Natality uncovers this index at the heart
of scenes and products of birth in the age of Goethe.
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