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Passions of the Sign : Revolution and Language in Kant, Goethe, and Kleist.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801889042
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Passions of the SignDDC classification:
  • 830.9/0001/4
LOC classification:
  • P99.37.G3G35 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: Energetic Signs: Autonomy and Novelty in the Age of Revolution -- 1 Revealing Freedom: Crisis and Enthusiasm in Kant's Philosophy of History -- 2 The Poetics of Containment: Goethe's Conversations of German Refugees and the Crisis of Communication -- 3 Border Narratives: Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas -- Conclusion: The Big Either -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: At once a historical and a conceptual study, this volume moves between literature and philosophy, and between textual analysis and theoretical speculation, engaging with recent discussions on the status of sovereignty, the significance of performative language in politics and art, and the presence of the impersonal, even inhuman, within the economy of the self.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: Energetic Signs: Autonomy and Novelty in the Age of Revolution -- 1 Revealing Freedom: Crisis and Enthusiasm in Kant's Philosophy of History -- 2 The Poetics of Containment: Goethe's Conversations of German Refugees and the Crisis of Communication -- 3 Border Narratives: Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas -- Conclusion: The Big Either -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

At once a historical and a conceptual study, this volume moves between literature and philosophy, and between textual analysis and theoretical speculation, engaging with recent discussions on the status of sovereignty, the significance of performative language in politics and art, and the presence of the impersonal, even inhuman, within the economy of the self.

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