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Retreat of Representation

The Concept of Darstellung in German Critical Discourse

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

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Examines the notion of Darstellung [representation] in the critical discourse of German Idealism and Romanticism, paying particular attention to Kant, Fichte, Novalis, and Kleist.The Retreat of Representation is the first book-length study to examine the radical new notion of Darstellung in its own discursive context. Martha Helfer traces the term's genealogy from its inception in Kant's Critiques through Fichte's definition of the subject as Darstellung to the poetic theory and praxis of the Jena Romantics. She argues that the conceptually powerful yet tremendously problematic figure of the negative Darstellung of the Kantian sublime opens up the possibility of a poetization of the philosophical discourse of transcendental idealism, and ultimately demonstrates that Kleist's oeuvre constitutes a critique of transcendental theories of Darstellung. Helfer provides remarkably clear, concise readings of major texts of Idealism and Romanticism in light of the Darstellung problematic, advancing compelling interpretations of Novalis's Hymns to the Night as a theory of the Romantic lyric, Kleist's essay On the Marionette Theater as a redaction and revision of the Kantian sublime, The Foundling as a critique of Fichtean ego philosophy, and The Broken Jug as a prototype of Heideggerian and post-Heideggerian critiques of representation

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Utgivningsdatum1996-04-04
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
Antal sidor225
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791429112

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Heidegger's World Picture: A Space Withdrawn from Representation 1. Kant and the Genealogy of the Romantic Notion of Darstellung Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theories of DarstellungThe Role of Representation in Kant's EpistemologyThe Critique of Pure Reason : The Limits of DarstellungThe Critique of Judgment : The Darstellung of LimitsSummary2. The Idealist Response: From Reinhold to the Romantics Reinhold's Elementary Philosophy: Recasting Kant's First Critique as a Theory of RepresentationSchulze's Aenesidemus : Meta-Critical SkepticismFichte's Own Meditations on Elementary Philosophy and the Aenesidemus Review: Defining the Subject as DarstellungFichte's Practical Philosophy and Beyond: The Aesthetic Transformation3. Novalis: The Jena Romantic Poetization of Darstellung The Fichte-Studies : The Necessary Deception of DarstellungKlingsohr's Tale : "Prophetic Representation"Hymns to the Night : "Representing the Unrepresentable"4. Kleist: Transcending the Transcendental On the Marionette Theater. "Reflection Is Getting Darker and Weaker"The Foundling : The "Apparent Indifference" of the SubjectThe Broken Jug : "Deceived by Appearances"Epilogue: Romanticism Represented Notes Bibliography Index

"I highly recommend The Retreat of Representation. Helfer's pursuit of the concept of Darstellung from Kant through the German Romantics is fresh and significant. Her patient and accessible readings are compelling, and they complement one another nicely in the development of the overall argument." — Tim Walters, University of Rochester"The topic is extremely significant and timely, central to discussions not only of German Romanticism but to the kind of critical issues arising in a Heideggerian (and post-Heideggerian) context." — Rebecca Comay, University of Toronto