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Article: Heinrich von Kleist und die Aufklarung.(Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Heinrich von Kleist und die Aufklarung. Edited by Tim Mehigan. Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2000. Pp.xix + 246. [pound]40.00.
As an example of the interface between literature and philosophy, Heinrich von Kleist's work has long been read in terms of his reception of Immanuel Kant, and the so-called 'Kant crisis' of 1801 has become a chief topos of secondary literature on his oeuvre. In April 1998, a colloquium was organized by the University of Melbourne, long known as an antipodean power-house of Kleist studies, whose proceedings are now published, in revised form, in this collection of essays on Kleist and the Enlightenment. Its editor, ...