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Passions of the Sign:

Revolution and Language in Kant, Goethe, and Kleist
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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 Wol fgang 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 expression of a fundamental mechanism of political, conceptual, and aesthetic practice.At once a historical and a conceptual study, this volume moves between literature and philosophy, and between textual analysis and theoretical speculation, engaging with recent discussions on the status of sovereignty, the significance of performative language in politics and art, and the presence of the impersonal, even inhuman, within the economy of the self.

List of AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroduction: Energetic Signs: Autonomy and Novelty in the Age of Revolution1. Revealing Freedom: Crisis and Enthusiasm in Kant's Philosophy of History2. The Poetics of Containment: Goethe's Conversations of German Refugees and the Crisis of Communication3. Border Narratives: Kleist's Michael KohlhaasConclusion: The Big EitherNotesReferencesIndex

""The great virtue of this book is that its author is an attentive reader who reads important texts and writes well about what he reads.""

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