Figures of Natality

Joseph D. O'Neil

earliest edition we have, 2017 Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2017 320 pages

"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 Goethe, Schiller, 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...

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Figures of Natality paperback · 2018 · Bloomsbury Academic · 322 pages · 9781501343728
Figures of Natality edition · 2017 · Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 320 pages · 9781501315046
Figures of Natality edition · 2017 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 310 pages · 9781501315022
Figures of Natality edition · 2017 · Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 320 pages · 9781501315039

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