In Praise of Nonsense: Kant & Bluebeard

by Winfried Menninghaus and winfried-menninghaus

Book Overview

Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing--such are the examples Kant's Critique of Judgment 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804729522
• ISBN13: 9780804729529
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"