title: [Theories of stages of life within the anthropology of romanticism].
abstract: The essay discusses the importance and prominence of theories about different stages of life in the anthropological and medical discourse of romanticism. This discourse has clearly a stabilising and restaurative function, favouring the age of moderate manhood. The political and social regulative implications of these theories demand a restaurative roll-back. The essay is based on a concept of sociology of knowledge formation.
authors.forename: Pia-Johanna
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Schweizer
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schweizer
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D012660:Semantics; D012961:Sociology / Q000266:history*