Heinrich Von Kleist

Literary and Philosophical Paradigms
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-64014-096-7
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 226, 372 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 667 g

Reihe: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

WINNER of the 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award

Volume of new essays investigating Kleist's influences and sources both literary and philosophical, their role as paradigms, and the ways in which he responded to and often shattered them.

Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) was a rebel who upset canonization by employing his predecessors and contemporaries as what Steven Howe calls "inspirational foils." It was precisely a keen awareness of literary and philosophical traditions that allowed Kleist to shatter prevailing paradigms. Though little is known about what specifically Kleist read, the frequent allusions in his enduringly modern oeuvre indicate fruitful dialogues with both canonical and marginal works of European literature, spanning antiquity (The Old Testament, Sophocles), the Early Modern Period (Shakespeare, De Zayas), the late Enlightenment (Wieland, Goethe, Schiller), and the first eleven years of the nineteenth century (Mereau, Brentano, Collin). Kleist's works also evidence encounters with his philosophical precursors and contemporaries, including the ancient Greeks (Aristotle) and representatives of all phases of Enlightenment thought (Montesquieu, Rousseau, Ferguson, Spalding, Fichte, Kant, Hegel), economic theories (Smith, Kraus), and developments in anthropology, sociology, and law. This volume of new essays sheds light on Kleist's relationship to his literary and philosophical influences and on their function as paradigms to which his writings respond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

High, Jeffrey L

Stewart, Rebecca

Stewart-Gray, Rebecca

Chen, Elaine

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lützeler, Paul Michael

Hart, Gail K.

Howe, Steven

Beesley, Lisa

McCarthy, John A.

Hamilton, John T.

Macor, Laura Anna

Moser, Christian

Endres, Johannes

Fischer, Bernd

Pahl, Katrin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: A Note on Kleist in American Art, Film, and Literature - Paul Michael Lützeler

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Kleist's Literary and Philosophical Paradigms = Jeffrey L. High, Rebecca Stewart, and Elaine Chen

Part I. Kleist's Literary Paradigms

In the Beginning: Kleist, Genesis, Kafka, and the Pursuit of Epistemological Salvation - Gail K. Hart

Just Violence? War, Law, and Politics in Kleist's Die Herrmannsschlacht and Shakespeare's Henry V - Steven Howe

The Mereau-Brentano Translations of María de Zayas's "Spanish Novellas" and Kleist's Prose Works - Jeffrey L. High and Lisa Beesley

The Old and the New: Christoph Martin Wieland and Kleist on Parteigeist - John A. McCarthy

Receptions, Homages, and Anti-Occupational Allegories of Autonomy: The Case of Schiller's Bohemian Cup and Kleist's Broken Jug - Jeffrey L. High and Elaine Chen

Anti-Napoleonic Rage and the Hope for a Better Future: Collin between Schiller and Kleist - Rebecca Stewart

Part II: Kleist's Philosophical Paradigms

Fiat claritas et pereat opus: Equity and the Limits of Rectification in Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas - John T. Hamilton

Kleist, Johann Joachim Spalding and the Bestimmung des Menschen: Philosophy as a Way of Life? - Laura Anna Macor

War Games: Kleist, Adam Ferguson, and the Cultural Poetics of Play - Christian Moser

Economic Concepts and Authorial Self-Design in Heinrich von Kleist's Letters - Johannes Endres

Gender and the Politics of Recognition in Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right and Kleist's Amphitryon - Bernd Fischer

Kleist and Haiti - With and Beyond Hegel - Katrin Pahl

Notes on the Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fischer, Bernd
BERND FISCHER is Emeritus Academy Professor at the Ohio State University.

High, Jeffrey L
JEFFREY L. HIGH is Professor in German Studies, Comparative Literature, and Honors at California State University, Long Beach, CA.

Chen, Elaine
ELAINE CHEN is a PhD candidate in the Departments of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, MA.

Howe, Steven
STEVEN HOWE is Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Lucerne, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies.

Endres, Johannes
JOHANNES ENDRES is Professor of Comparative Literature and Art History at the University of California, Riverside.

Hart, Gail K.
GAIL K. HART is Professor Emerita of German at the University of California, Irvine.

Stewart, Rebecca
REBECCA STEWART received her M.A. in German Studies at CSULB and is pursuing her doctoral studies as an Ashford Fellow in Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

Hamilton, John T.
JOHN T. HAMILTON is the William R. Kenan Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Harvard University.

McCarthy, John A.
JOHN A. MCCARTHY is Professor of German and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Vanderbilt University.

Stewart-Gray, Rebecca
REBECCA STEWART received her M.A. in German Studies at CSULB and is pursuing her doctoral studies as an Ashford Fellow in Germanic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

Macor, Laura Anna
LAURA ANNA MACOR is Associate Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Verona.

Moser, Christian
CHRISTIAN MOSER is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bonn.

Beesley, Lisa
LISA BEESLEY is a Lecturer of German at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Pahl, Katrin
KATRIN PAHL is Professor of German at the Johns Hopkins University, where she has also served as Co-Director of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

Lützeler, Paul Michael
PAUL MICHAEL LUETZELER is the Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis where he has been teaching courses in German and Comparative Literature