Passions of the Sign: Revolution and Language in Kant, Goethe, and Kleist

by Andreas Gailus

Passions of the Sign traces the impact of the French Revolution on Enlightenment thought in Germany as evidenced in the work of three major figures around the turn of the nineteenth century: Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist. Andreas Gailus examines a largely overlooked strand in the philosophical and literary reception of the French Revolution, one which finds in the historical occurrence of revolution the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080188277X
• ISBN13: 9780801882777
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"