Becoming human : romantic anthropology and the embodiment of freedom /

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Author / Creator:	Wellmon, Chad, 1976-
Imprint:	University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010.
Description:	viii, 326 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Literature and philosophy Literature and philosophy.
Subject:	Philosophical anthropology -- History. Civilization, Modern. Liberty -- Philosophy. Human beings. Civilization, Modern. Human beings. Liberty -- Philosophy. Philosophical anthropology. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8305672

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ISBN:	9780271037349 (cloth : alk. paper) 0271037342 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: On the Possibility of Critique and the Failure of Anthropology
Part 1. The Historical Problem
1. Proto-anthropology and the Discovery of Reflexivity
Part 2. A Provisional (Kantian) Solution
2. Cultivating Freedom: Kant's Affective Ethics
3. Freedom, Between Nature and Reason: Kant's Pragmatic Anthropology
4. Testing the Human: Kant and Forster on the Differences of Race and the Possibilities of Culture
Part 3. Three Responses to Kant
5. Poesie as Anthropology: Schleiermacher, Colonial History, and the Ethics of Ethnography
6. Lyrical Feeling: Novalis's Anthropology of the Senses
7. The Body of Language: Goethe, Humboldt, and the "Lively Gaze"
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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