Title: The equivocation of reason
First published: 2007
Description: Phillips asks how the literary works of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist might be considered a critique and elaboration of Kantian philosophy. In 1801, the 23-year-old Kleist, attributing his loss of confidence in our knowledge of the world to his reading of Kant, turned from science to literature. He ignored Kant's apology of the sciences to focus on the philosopher's doctrine of the unknowability of things in themselves. From that point on, Kleist's writings relate confrontations with points of hermeneutic resistance.
Subjects: German Philosophy, Influence, Philosophy, Philosophy, German, Kleist, heinrich von, 1777-1811, Kant, immanuel, 1724-1804
People: Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PT2379.Z5 P55 2007