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Passions of the sign : revolution and language in Kant, Goethe, and Kleist / Andreas Gailus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gailus, Andreas.
- Series:
- Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
- Parallax : re-visions of culture and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semiotics--Germany--History.
- Semiotics.
- German language--Rhetoric--History.
- German language.
- Subjectivity--History--19th century.
- Subjectivity.
- Subjectivity in literature.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Influence.
- France.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Literature and the revolution.
- Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777-1811. Michael Kohlhaas.
- Kleist, Heinrich von.
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kant, Immanuel.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Energetic signs: autonomy and novelty in the age of revolution
- Revealing freedom: crisis and enthusiasm in Kant's philosophy of history
- Poetics of containment: Goethe's Conversations of German refugees and the crisis of communication
- Border narratives: Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas
- Conclusion: The big either.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-8904-9
- OCLC:
- 923193708
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