Uncivil Unions: The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism and Romanticism

by Adrian Daub

"What a strange invention marriage is " wrote Kierkegaard. "Is it the expression of that inexplicable erotic sentiment, that concordant elective affinity of souls, or is it a duty or a partnership . . . or is it a little of all that?"

Like Kierkegaard a few decades later, many of Germany's most influential thinkers at the turn of the eighteenth century wondered about the nature of marriage but rejected the easy answers provided by biology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226136930
• ISBN13: 9780226136936
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"