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Stael's Philosophy of the Passions - Sensibility, Society and the Sister Arts (Hardcover)
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Stael's Philosophy of the Passions - Sensibility, Society and the Sister Arts (Hardcover)
Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
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Sensibility, or the capacity to feel, played a vital role in
philosophical reflection about the natural sciences, the social
sciences, and the arts in eighteenth-century France. Yet scholars
have privileged the Marquis de Sade's vindication of physiological
sensibility as the logical conclusion of Enlightenment over
Germaine de Stael's exploration of moral sensibility's potential
for reform and renewal that paved the way for Romanticism. This
volume of essays showcases Stael's contribution to the "affective
revolution" in Europe, investigating the personal and political
circumstances that informed her theory of the passions and the
social and aesthetic innovations to which it gave rise.
Contributors move seamlessly between her political, philosophical,
and fictional works, attentive to the relationship between emotion
and cognition and aware of the coherence of her thought on an
individual, national, and international scale. They first examine
the significance Stael attributed to pity, happiness, melancholy,
and enthusiasm in The Influence of the Passions as she witnessed
revolutionary strife and envisioned the new republic. They then
explore her development of a cosmopolitan aesthetic, in such works
as On Literature, Corinne, or Italy, On Germany, and The Spirit of
Translation, that transcended traditional generic, national, and
linguistic boundaries. Finally, they turn to her contributions to
the visual and musical arts as she deftly negotiated the transition
from a Neoclassical to a Romantic aesthetic. Stael's Philosophy of
the Passions concludes that, rather than founding a republic based
on the rights of man, Stael's reflection fostered international
communities of women (artists, models, and collectors; authors,
performers, and spectators), enabling them to participate in the
re-articulation of sociocultural values in the wake of the French
Revolution. Contributors: Tili Boon Cuille, Catherine Dubeau,
Nanette Le Coat, Christine Dunn Henderson, Karen de Bruin, M. Ione
Crummy, Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Lauren Fortner Ravalico, C. C.
Wharram, Kari Lokke, Susan Tenenbaum, Mary D. Sheriff, Heather
Belnap Jensen, Fabienne Moore, Julia Effertz
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