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Chapter 2 - Kleist and the Kant-Crisis

from Part I - Disorientating Kant

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2022

Paul Hamilton
Affiliation:
Queen Mary University of London
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This book revives a contested moment in the history of aesthetic theory when Romantic-period writers exploit the growing awareness of irresolutions in Kant’s third Kritik, especially in his critique of judgements of the sublime. Read with hindsight, these openings can be seen to have generated literary opportunities for writings that explicitly embraced the philosophical significance delegated to the aesthetic by Kant, but then took advantage of the licence he had conceded. Romantic writing claimed a wider significance of its own that philosophy now had to learn to rationalise. Consequent aesthetic reorientations, in which splendours and miseries become interchangeable, reflect political instabilities already exploited by feminist and nationalist writing. Falling becomes a kind of rising, and literature’s unregulated power of metamorphosis persuasively challenges hierarchies of all kinds, including its own.

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Orientation in European Romanticism
The Art of Falling Upwards
, pp. 21 - 41
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Kleist and the Kant-Crisis
  • Paul Hamilton, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: Orientation in European Romanticism
  • Online publication: 13 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009268226.003
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  • Kleist and the Kant-Crisis
  • Paul Hamilton, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: Orientation in European Romanticism
  • Online publication: 13 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009268226.003
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  • Kleist and the Kant-Crisis
  • Paul Hamilton, Queen Mary University of London
  • Book: Orientation in European Romanticism
  • Online publication: 13 October 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009268226.003
Available formats
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