Retreat of Representation

Martha B. Helfer is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Utah.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Heidegger's World Picture: A Space Withdrawn from Representation 1.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