Heinrich Von Kleist and Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Violence, Identity, Nation

by Steven Howe

By reconsidering Kleist's reception of Rousseau and placing it in historical context, this book sheds new light on a range of political and ethical issues at play in Kleist's work.

Heinrich von Kleist is renowned as an author who posed a radical challenge to the orthodoxies of his age. Today, his works are frequently seen to relentlessly deconstruct the paradigms of Idealism and to reflect a Romantic, even postmodern, perspective on the ambiguities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135545
• ISBN13: 9781571135544
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"