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Volume of new essays investigating Kleist's influences and sources
both literary and philosophical, their role as paradigms, and the
ways in which he responded to and often shattered them. Heinrich
von Kleist (1777-1811) was a rebel who upset canonization by
employing his predecessors and contemporaries as what Steven Howe
calls "inspirational foils." It was precisely a keen awareness of
literary and philosophical traditions that allowed Kleist to
shatter prevailing paradigms. Though little is known about what
specifically Kleist read, the frequent allusions in his enduringly
modern oeuvre indicate fruitful dialogues with both canonical and
marginal works of European literature, spanning antiquity (The Old
Testament, Sophocles), the Early Modern Period (Shakespeare, De
Zayas), the late Enlightenment (Wieland, Goethe, Schiller), and the
first eleven years of the nineteenth century (Mereau, Brentano,
Collin). Kleist's works also evidence encounters with his
philosophical precursors and contemporaries, including the ancient
Greeks (Aristotle) and representatives of all phases of
Enlightenment thought (Montesquieu, Rousseau, Ferguson, Spalding,
Fichte, Kant, Hegel), economic theories (Smith, Kraus), and
developments in anthropology, sociology, and law. This volume of
new essays sheds light on Kleist's relationship to his literary and
philosophical influences and on their function as paradigms to
which his writings respond.
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Unbinding Love (Paperback)
Rebecca Stewart; Illustrated by Miriam Cavanaugh
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The Western World is divided between two opposing worldviews: that
of the relativistic M'n-M culture (the culture of materialism and
meaningless) and that deriving from the divine narrative preserved
by the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures. A personal journey in living,
this book contrasts these two ways of thinking, shows the way out
of the human dilemmas common today, and encourages us to take up
the challenge to Walk a Straight Path in a Crooked World, the path
leading to happiness and a hope that lasts longer than a lifetime.
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