{"product_id":"post-personal-romanticism-bo-earle-9780814254448","title":"Post-Personal Romanticism: Democratic Terror, Prosthetic Poetics, and the Comedy of Modern Ethical Life","description":"\u003ci\u003ePost-Personal Romanticism: Democratic Terror, Prosthetic Poetics, and the Comedy of Modern Ethical Life\u003c\/i\u003e by Bo Earle offers a broad recasting of Romantic lyric's formal innovations in terms of Hegel's historical ethics. These innovations attempt to come to terms with the Enlightenment's paradoxical legacy: industrial and consumerist modernity depends on the Enlightenment norm of rationally autonomous individuality even as it makes this norm ever more implausible. In turn, a key insight of the Romantics is that modernity depends most crucially upon the very elusiveness of this norm of autonomous individuality. The Romantics emphasize that modernity is \u003ci\u003econstitutively\u003c\/i\u003e a culture of fantasy, a culture self-conscious about the impossibility of its own organizing values and goals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tracing this insight to Hegel's suggestion that modern subjectivity is in some sense post-individual or even posthumous, Earle argues that signature Romantic lyrics offer a way forward that avoids postmodernism's wholesale rejection of autonomous selfhood. With chapters on Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, Earle traces how Romantic lyrics mine this interminability to recover figurative emblems or masks of selfhood from experiences of its inevitable normative failure. This model is of particularly urgent value today when the costs of modern narcissism, economic exploitation, and political imperialism have come to include the normalization of torture, signature drone strikes, and climate change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bo Earle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814254446\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814254448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d","brand":"Bo Earle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981653049599,"sku":"9780814254448","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_88196796-d5d3-480d-a36c-e12230a4a80e.jpg?v=1683256781","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/post-personal-romanticism-bo-earle-9780814254448","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}