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Although influential in his own day, Karl Leonhard Reinhold's
contribution to late 18th and early 19th century thought has long
been overshadowed by the towering presence of Immanuel Kant, the
thinker whose ideas he helped to interpret and disseminate. Today,
however, a more nuanced understanding of Reinhold's contribution to
post-Kantian thought is emerging. Apart from his exposition of
Kant's critical philosophy, which played a significant role in the
development of German idealism, Reinhold's role in the intellectual
movement of Enlightenment and his contributions to early linguistic
philosophy are now receiving scholarly attention. In the
English-speaking world, where few translations of his work have
been attempted, Reinhold has mostly been overlooked. This imbalance
is corrected in the present work: the first translation into
English of Reinhold's major work of philosophy, the New Theory of
the Human Capacity for Representation (1789). The translators
provide an overview of the main currents of thought which informed
Reinhold's philosophical project, as well as notes on his reading
of Kant and other important thinkers of Reinhold's day. A glossary
of key terms, a bibliography of scholarly work on Reinhold and
suggestions for further reading are also included.
Although influential in his own day, Karl Leonhard Reinhold's
contribution to late 18th and early 19th century thought has long
been overshadowed by the towering presence of Immanuel Kant, the
thinker whose ideas he helped to interpret and disseminate. Today,
however, a more nuanced understanding of Reinhold's contribution to
post-Kantian thought is emerging. Apart from his exposition of
Kant's critical philosophy, which played a significant role in the
development of German idealism, Reinhold's role in the intellectual
movement of Enlightenment and his contributions to early linguistic
philosophy are now receiving scholarly attention. In the
English-speaking world, where few translations of his work have
been attempted, Reinhold has mostly been overlooked. This imbalance
is corrected in the present work: the first translation into
English of Reinhold's major work of philosophy, the New Theory of
the Human Capacity for Representation (1789). The translators
provide an overview of the main currents of thought which informed
Reinhold's philosophical project, as well as notes on his reading
of Kant and other important thinkers of Reinhold's day. A glossary
of key terms, a bibliography of scholarly work on Reinhold and
suggestions for further reading are also included.
Kleist viewed anew as a major contributor to the tradition of
post-Kantian thought. The question of Heinrich von Kleist's reading
and reception of Kant's philosophy has never been satisfactorily
answered. The present study aims to reassess this question,
particularly in the light of Kant's rising importance for the
humanities today. It argues not only that Kleist was influenced by
Kant, but also that he may be understood as a Kantian, albeit an
unorthodox one. The volume integrates material previously published
by the author, now updated, with new chapters to form a greater
whole. What results is a coherent set of approaches that
illuminates the question of Kleist's Kantianism from different
points of view. Kleist is thereby understood not only as a writer
but also as a thinker - one whose seriousness of purpose and
clarity of design compares with that of other early expositors of
Kant's thought such as Reinhold and Fichte. Through the locutions
and idioms of fiction and the essay, Kleist becomes visible for the
first time as an original contributor to the tradition of
post-Kantian ideas. Tim Mehigan is Professorial Chair of German in
the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of
Otago, New Zealand, and Honorary Professor in the School of
Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of
Queensland, Australia.
Friedrich Schiller is justly celebrated for his dramas and poetry.
Yet, above all, he was a polymath, whose writings enriched a range
of fields including history and philosophy. Until now, no
comprehensive accounting of this philosophy has been undertaken.
The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Friedrich Schiller makes
good this desideratum, treating Schiller's poetry, prose, and
dramatic work alongside his philosophical writings and reviewing
his thought not only in connection with those who influenced him,
such as Kant, Reinhold, and Fichte, but also those he anticipated,
such as Hegel, Marx, and the Neo-Kantians. Topics treated in this
volume include Schiller's philosophical background, his theoretical
writings, Schiller's philosophical writing in light of his entire
oeuvre, and Schiller's philosophical legacy. The Handbook also
includes an overview of the main topics Schiller addressed in his
philosophical writings including philosophical anthropology,
aesthetics, moral philosophy, politics and political theory, the
philosophy of history, and the philosophy of education. Bringing
together the latest research on Schiller and his thought by leading
scholars in the field, the Handbook draws attention to Schiller's
undiminished importance for philosophical debates today.
A major new study of Robert Musil by one of the world's leading
Musil scholars. Musil's extraordinary works, the study reveals,
emerged from the problem of the "two cultures." The modern era is
marked by the separate life of two cultures of understanding, one
derived from art and its discourses, the other from science and its
practices. This "problem of the two cultures" (as coined by C.P.
Snow) describes the difficulty of bringing these distinct ways of
understanding the world together. The works of the Austrian author
Robert Musil (1930-33) represent the most distinguished treatment
of this problem in the modern era. Nevertheless, doubts persist
about Musil's true intentions. Did he maintain that the separation
between art and science could be resolved? Or did he rise above the
problem by advocating a new order of being or "other condition"
that would dispense with it altogether? Mehigan's study moves these
questions to center stage. He lends new clarity to the debate about
Musil's position in regard to the two cultures by shining a light
on ethical questions the author ultimately wished to clarify. It is
the shape of a hard-won ethics, Mehigan argues, that provides the
key to an effective response to the problem of the two cultures -
an ethics, in the end, that can only be put forward as a new kind
of art. Tim Mehigan is Professor of German and Deputy Director of
the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the
University of Queensland, Australia.
New essays providing critical views of Coetzee's major works for
the scholar and the general reader. J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the
most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction
writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 2003 and is the first writer to have been awarded two
BookerPrizes. The present volume makes critical views of this
important writer accessible to the general reader as well as the
scholar, discussing Coetzee's main works in chronological order and
introducing the dominant themes in the academic discussion of his
oeuvre. The volume highlights Coetzee's exceptionally nuanced
approach to writing as both an exacting craft and a challenging
moral-ethical undertaking. It discusses Coetzee's complex relation
to apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, the land of his
birth, and evaluates his complicated responses to the literary
canon. Coetzee emerges as both a modernist and a highly self-aware
postmodernist - a champion of the truths of aliterary enterprise
conducted unrelentingly in the mode of self-confession.
Contributors: Chris Ackerley, Derek Attridge, Carrol Clarkson,
Simone Drichel, Johan Geertsema, David James, Michelle Kelly, Sue
Kossew, MikeMarais, James Meffan, Tim Mehigan, Chris Prentice,
Engelhard Weigl, Kim L. Worthington. Tim Mehigan is Professor of
Languages in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the
University of Otago, New Zealand and Honorary Professor in the
Department of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies at the
University of Queensland, Australia.
New essays examining the intellectual allegiances of Coetzee,
arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of
fiction in English today and a deeply intellectual and
philosophical writer. Arguably the most decorated and critically
acclaimed writer of today, J. M. Coetzee is a deeply intellectual
writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee's
writing is aware that the visible superstructure of his works is
moved from below by a vast substructure of ideas, we are still far
from grasping Coetzee's intellectual allegiances as a whole. This
book sets out to examine these allegiances in ways not attempted
before, by bringing leadingfigures in the philosophy of literary
fiction and ethics together with leading Coetzee scholars. The book
is organized into three parts: the first part evaluates Coetzee
with respect to notions of truth and justification. At issue is how
the reader is to understand the ground on which Coetzee builds his
ethical commitments. The second part considers the problem of
language, in which ethics is rooted and on which it depends. The
chapters of the third partposition Coetzee's writing with respect
to notions of social and moral solidarity, where, in regard to
literature as such or experience as such, philosophy and literature
together exercise an unrivaled right to be heard. Contributors:
Elisa Aaltola, Derek Attridge, David Attwell, Maria Boletsi, Carrol
Clarkson, Simon During, Patrick Hayes, Alexander Honold, Anton
Leist, Tim Mehigan, Christian Moser, Robert B. Pippin, Robert
Stockhammer, Markus Winkler, Martin Woessner. Tim Mehigan is Deputy
Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at
the University of Queensland. Christian Moser is Professor of
Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn.
A study of the most significant international scholarship on
Musil's famous novel. The Austrian writer Robert Musil ranks among
the foremost novelists of the 20th century. Despite a series of
lesser but well-regarded shorter works, his literary reputation
rests almost entirely on his novel Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The
Man without Qualities), a life-work in the truest sense, which
became the focus of all his energies and thinking from 1924 until
his death in 1942. This study analyzes the principal trends in
scholarship on the novel from the 1960s to the present. It
contrasts earlier criticism, which foregrounded the eponymous
central character's search for identity against the background of
subject theory or mysticism, with more recent criticism, whichhas
focused on aesthetic and ethical approaches to the novel within the
broader context of theories of value. A focal chapter in the study
centers on the persistent difficulty critics have encountered with
the idea of "Eigenschaftslosigkeit," the state of being without
qualities named in the novel's title. Tim Mehigan is Associate
Professor of German and Head of the Department of Germanic Studies
and Russian at the University of Melbourne.
New essays employing a multitude of approaches to the works of
Kleist, in the process shedding light on our present modernity.
Modernity, according to some views, poses the problem of homo
politicus -- the problem of how to act in a moral universe without
a "master narrative," without a final foundation. From this angle,
the oeuvre of Heinrich vonKleist -- novellas, dramas, and essays --
addresses problems emerging from a new universe of Kantian
provenance, in many ways the same universe we inhabit today. This
volume of new essays investigates Kleist's position in
ourever-changing conception of modernity, employing aesthetic,
narrative, philosophical, biographical, political, economic,
anthropological, psychological, and cultural approaches and
wrestling with the difficulties of historicizingKleist's life and
work. Central questions are: To what extent can the multitude of
breaking points and turning points, endgames and pre-games,
ruptures and departures that permeate Kleist's work and biography
be conceptually bundled together and linked to the emerging
paradigm of modernity? And to what extent does such an approach to
Kleist not only advance understanding of this major German writer
and his work, but also shed light on the nature of our present
modernity? Contributors: Sean Allan, Peter Barton, Hilda Meldrum
Brown, David Chisholm, Andreas Gailus, Bernhard Greiner, Jeffrey L.
High, Anette Horn, Peter Horn, Wolf Kittler, Jonathan W. Marshall,
Christian Moser, Dorothea von Mucke, Nancy Nobile, David Pan,
Ricarda Schmidt, Helmut J. Schneider. Bernd Fischer is Professor of
German at the Ohio State University. Tim Mehigan is Professor of
German in the Department of Languagesand Cultures at the University
of Otago, New Zealand.
A collection of essays examining the influence of Kant on Heinrich
von Kleist. The great and eccentric German writer Heinrich von
Kleist, famous for his enigmatic dramas and novellas, read the
Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant in 1801. A series of
letters written around this time speak of the distresshe felt as he
absorbed the implications of Kantian thought. This sense of
distress -- long considered important to understanding Kleist's
subsequent works -- has become known to Kleist scholars as the
'Kant crisis,' and marks Kleist's abandonment of the hope of
gaining metaphysical certainty about his life. But it has never
been established which texts of Kant Kleist actually read, how well
he understood them, and why they precipitated such despair.
Kleisthimself -- aside from one paraphrasing of Kant in a letter of
1801 -- was never explicit about what he called this 'sad
philosophy.' Yet the distress seems never to have left him and
remains an abiding preoccupation throughout his dramas and stories.
This collection of essays, all in German language, represents the
most recent work of prominent scholars in the field. It takes the
pervasive sense of metaphysical crisis in Kleist's works as a
startingpoint. In the context of Kleist's response to Kant, the
essays deal with his subversive treatment of the literary motifs
and genres of his day, and with the ambiguity of truth in his works
-- for his characters and readers alike.In tracing the source of
crisis to specific writings of Kant and to other Enlightenment
thinkers such as Rousseau and Wieland, the essays show Kleist's
complex dialogue with the Enlightenment to be an important new
approach to understanding this notoriously difficult writer. Tim
Mehigan is Professor of German in the Department of Languages and
Cultures at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
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