Passions of the sign
Subtitle: revolution and language in Kant, Goethe, and Kleist
By: Andreas Gailus.
Series: Parallax : re-visions of culture and society; Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777-1811.; Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.; Semiotics -- Germany -- History.; German language -- Rhetoric -- History.; Subjectivity -- History -- 19th century.; Subjectivity in literature.; France -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence.; France -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Literature and the revolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Energetic signs: autonomy and novelty in the age of revolution; title: Revealing freedom: crisis and enthusiasm in Kant's philosophy of history; title: Poetics of containment: Goethe's Conversations of German refugees and the crisis of communication; title: Border narratives: Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas; title: The big either.