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Product Description: This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power...read more

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9783110271942, titled "The Epic Imaginary: Political Power and Its Legitimations in Eighteenth-Century German Literature" | Walter De Gruyter Inc, June 30, 2012, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This study analyzes how the imagination of the epic genre as legitimately legitimating community also unleashes an ambivalence between telling coherent - and hence legitimating - stories of political community and narrating open-ended stories of contingency that might de-legitimate political power.

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Product Description: The concept that art must have no instrumental function is a doctrine traditionally traced back to Kant's Critique of Judgment. In Reconstituting the Body Politic, Jonathan Hess proposes that this concept of autonomous art marks not a withdrawal from the political realm but the ultimate embodiment of Enlightenment political culture, a response to a crisis in the institution idealized by Jürgen Habermas as the bourgeois public sphere...read more

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9780814327883 | Wayne State Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: The concept that art must have no instrumental function is a doctrine traditionally traced back to Kant's Critique of Judgment.

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