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Staels Philosophy of the Passions: Sensibility, Society and the Sister Arts (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 16501850),Used
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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 eighteenthcentury France. Yet scholars have privileged the Marquis de Sades vindication of physiological sensibility as the logical conclusion of Enlightenment over Germaine de Stals exploration of moral sensibilitys potential for reform and renewal that paved the way for Romanticism. This volume of essays showcases Stals 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 Stal 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. Stals Philosophy of the Passions concludes that, rather than founding a republic based on the rights of man, Stals reflection fostered international communities of women (artists, models, and collectors; authors, performers, and spectators), enabling them to participate in the rearticulation of sociocultural values in the wake of the French Revolution.Contributors: Tili Boon Cuill, Catherine Dubeau, Nanette Le Coat, Christine Dunn Henderson, Karen de Bruin, M. Ione Crummy, Jennifer LawSullivan, Lauren Fortner Ravalico, C. C. Wharram, Kari Lokke, Susan Tenenbaum, Mary D. Sheriff, Heather Belnap Jensen, Fabienne Moore, Julia Effertz
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