Reforming the Moral Subject: Ethics and Sexuality in Central Europe, 1890-1930

by Tracie Matysik

Reforming the Moral Subject explores a movement known as ethics reform that flourished in Central Europe between 1890 and 1930. Tracie Matysik examines the works of German-speaking intellectuals and activists-moral philosophers, sociologists, legal theorists, pedagogy specialists, psychoanalysts, sexual liberationists, and others-who discovered in the language of ethics a means to revitalize the public sphere. Ethics reformers used the academic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801447127
• ISBN13: 9780801447129
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher