The dynastic imagination : family and modernity in nineteenth-century Germany

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    • Daub, Adrian

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The dynastic imagination : family and modernity in nineteenth-century Germany

Adrian Daub

University of Chicago Press, 2021

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: ""Dynasties" offers an unexpected account of modern German identity through frameworks of family and kinship. Modernity aimed to brush off all dynastic, hierarchical authority and to make society anew through the mechanisms of marriage, siblinghood, and love. It was, in other words, centered on the nuclear family. But as Adrian Daub shows, the dynastic imagination persisted, betraying the nuclear family's conservatism and temporal limits. Indeed, Daub argues that dynastic power loomed as a political specter and cultural force in the imaginations even of increasingly urbane, bourgeois Europeans. Focusing on the incipient German state, Daub shows how a lingering preoccupation with dynasties suffused public life and surfaced everywhere in literature and culture. Daub builds this conception of dynasty in a syncretic study of the literature, sciences, and history of ideas into the twentieth century. The French Revolution and Enlightenment spurred the need to unravel the binds of heredity; Romanticism sent

収録内容

  • Into the family gallery
  • Nuclearity and its discontents
  • Abortive Romanticism
  • Feminism, or, The Hegelian dynasty
  • Wagner, or, The bourgeois dynasty
  • Naturalism, or, The dynastic romance
  • Freud, or, The reluctant patriarch
  • George, or, The queer dynasty

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内容説明

Adrian Daub's The Dynastic Imagination offers an unexpected account of modern German intellectual history through frameworks of family and kinship. Modernity aimed to brush off dynastic, hierarchical authority and to make society anew through the mechanisms of marriage, siblinghood, and love. It was, in other words, centered on the nuclear family. But as Daub shows, the dynastic imagination persisted, in time emerging as a critical stance by which the nuclear family's conservatism and temporal limits could be exposed. Focusing on the complex interaction between dynasties and national identity-formation in Germany, Daub shows how a lingering preoccupation with dynastic modes of explanation, legitimation, and organization suffused German literature and culture. Daub builds this conception of dynasty in a syncretic study of the literature, sciences, and history of ideas into the twentieth century. As early modernism discovered a standpoint from which to critique the nuclear family, remnants of dynastic ideology kept their hold variously on Richard Wagner, Emile Zola, Stefan George, and Sigmund Freud. At every stage of cultural progression, Daub reveals how the relation of dynastic to nuclear families inflected modern intellectual history.

目次

Introduction: An Essay on Mediate Family Chapter 1: Into the Family Gallery Chapter 2: Nuclearity and Its Discontents Chapter 3: Abortive Romanticism Chapter 4: Feminism, or The Hegelian Dynasty Chapter 5: Wagner, or The Bourgeois Dynasty Chapter 6: Naturalism, or The Dynastic Romance Chapter 7: Freud, or The Reluctant Patriarch Chapter 8: George, or The Queer Dynasty Epilogue: Black Sheep Acknowledgments Notes Index

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