Beyond Theory: Eighteenth-Century German Literature and the Poetics of Irony

By Benjamin Bennett

A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book for 1995" In a book of rare breadth of vision, Benjamin Bennett offers a new interpretation of the eighteenth century. He provides nuanced re-evaluations of Goethe, Herder, Hlderlin, Kleist, Lessing, Schiller, and Kant, as well as many other poets and philosophers. He seeks to trace the process by which modernity emerged in eighteenth-century German thought.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801428416
• ISBN13: 9780801428418
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: NCROL
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"