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Heinrich von Kleist and Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Violence, Identity, Nation (Hardcover)
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Heinrich von Kleist and Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Violence, Identity, Nation (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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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 Sean Allan, of Heinrich von
Kleist: Konstruktive und Destruktive Funktionen von Gewalt
(forthcoming, 2012).
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