The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant - Hardcover

by James Phillips (Author)

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.

Author Biography

James Phillips holds an Australian Research Council fellowship in the School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales and is the author of Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry (Stanford, 2005).