Introduction “Rien Faire Comme Une Bête”: Of Anonymity and Obligation
Introduction “Rien Faire Comme Une Bête”: Of Anonymity and Obligation
This introductory chapter lays out the theoretical foundations of the present study, which reconsiders romanticism through the concept of anonymity in order to claim that, not only have we yet to fully account for the theoretical complexity of the period's explorations of subjectivity, but the notion of anonymity is a pervasive topic of romanticism: it provokes profound engagements with the ethics and aesthetics of alterity; it rethinks political questions and theories of action which emerge once the romantic subject loses its privileged locus as a “will to power”; and it becomes a site of discord and difference.
Keywords: romanticism, anonymity, subjectivity, alterity, discord, difference
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