| The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant Contributor(s): Phillips, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804755876 ISBN-13: 9780804755870 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $66.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: "The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant" asks how the literary works of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist might be considered a critique and elaboration of Kantian philosophy. In 1801, the twenty-three-year-old Kleist, attributing his loss of confidence in our knowledge of the world to his reading of Kant, turned from science to literature. Kleist ignored Kant's apology of the sciences to focus on the philosopher's doctrine of the unknowability of things in themselves. From that point on, Kleist's writings relate confrontations with points of hermeneutic resistance. Truth is no longer that which the sciences establish; only the disappointment of every interpretation attests to the continued sway of truth. Though he adheres to Kant's definition of Reason as the faculty that addresses things in themselves, Kleist sees no need for its critique and discipline in the name of the reasonableness (prudence and common sense) of the experience of the natural sciences. Setting transcendental Reason at odds with empirical reasonableness, Kleist releases Kant's ethics and doctrine of the sublime from the moderating pull of their examples. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Epistemology |
| Dewey: 838.609 |
| LCCN: 2007007542 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.61" W x 9.2" (0.81 lbs) 156 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Kleist is a famous misreader of Kant, but this study pitches the latter's principles against the more restricted scope of his own examples in order to develop an ethics and an account of the sublime in keeping with Kleist's literary works. |