TY  - GEN
T1  - Heinrich von Kleist and Jean-Jacques Rousseau : violence, identity, nation
T2  - Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
A1  - Howe, Steven, 1983-
LA  - English
PP  - Rochester, N.Y.
PB  - Camden House
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn820839064
AB  - By reconsidering Kleist's reception of Rousseau and placing it in historical context, this book sheds new light on a range of political and ethical issues at play in Kleist's work.Heinrich von Kleist is renowned as an author who posed a radical challenge to the orthodoxies of his age. Today, his works are frequently seen to relentlessly deconstruct the paradigms of Idealism and to reflect a Romantic, even postmodern, perspective on the ambiguities of the world. Such a view fails, however, to do full justice to the more complex manner in which Kleist articulates the tensions between the securities of Enlightenment thought and the anxieties of the revolutionary age. Steven Howe offers a new angle on Kleist's dialogue with the Enlightenment by reconsidering his investment in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Where previous critics have trivialized this as intense but fleeting and born of personal identification, Howe here establishes Rousseau's importance as a lasting source of inspiration for the violent constellations of Kleist's fiction. Taking account of both Rousseau'scritique of modernity and his later propositions for working toward the Enlightenment promise of emancipation, the book locates a mode of discourse which, placed in the historical context of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, sheds new light on the political and ethical issues at play in Kleist's work. Steven Howe is Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. He is co-editor, with Ricarda Schmidt and Seán Allan, of Heinrich von Kleist: Konstruktive und Destruktive Funktionen von Gewalt (forthcoming, 2012).
OP  - 237
CN  - PT2379.Z5 H75 2012eb
SN  - 9781571138415
SN  - 1571138412
SN  - 9781571135544
SN  - 1571135545
KW  - Kleist, Heinrich von, : 1777-1811 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, : 1712-1778 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Kleist, Heinrich von, : 1777-1811
KW  - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, : 1712-1778
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : German.
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS : European : German.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -