In praise of nonsense
Subtitle: Kant and Bluebeard
By: Winfried Menninghaus ; translated by Henry Pickford.
Series: Meridian; Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804; Tieck, Ludwig, 1773-1853; Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703; Romanticism; Fairy tales -- History and criticism
Description: "Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing - such are the examples Kant's Critique of Judgement offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic beauty, Menninghaus's book demonstrates that all these examples refer to a widely unknown debate on the arabesque and that Kant, in displacing it, addresses genuinely "modern" phenomena. The early Romantic poetics and literature of the arabesque follow and radicalize Kant's move."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-257) and index.