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Isolated Cases: The Anxieties of Autonomy in Enlightenment Philosophy and Romantic Literature

Isolated Cases: The Anxieties of Autonomy in Enlightenment Philosophy and Romantic Literature

Yousef, Nancy

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0801442443
ISBN13: 9780801442445
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Apr 21 2004
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.32
Language: English

The literature of the romantic period has consistently been seen as the source of modern concepts of the individual. Nancy Yousef maintains, however, that the dominant account of the self in romanticism is in need of profound revision. While individuals presented in central texts of the period are indeed often alone or separated from others, Yousef regards this isolation as a problem the texts attempt to illuminate, rather than a condition they construct as normative or desirable. As her argument moves from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, through both philosophical and literary writing, her book offers a new account of autonomy and of the complex romantic inheritance of enlightenment preoccupations with the origins of human association and the course of human development.

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