Foreword: A Note on Kleist in American Art, Film, and Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: A Note on Kleist in American Art, Film, and Literature vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: Kleist’s Literary and Philosophical Paradigms 1
6. Part I. Kleist’s Literary Paradigms
7. 1: In the Beginning: Kleist, Genesis, Kafka, and the Pursuit of Epistemological Salvation 17
8. 2: Just Violence? War, Law, and Politics in Kleist’s Die Herrmannsschlacht and Shakespeare’s Henry V 30
9. 3: The Mereau-Brentano Translations of María de Zayas’s “Spanish Novellas” and Kleist’s Prose Works 52
10. 4: The Old and the New: Christoph Martin Wieland and Kleist on Parteigeist 96
11. 5: Receptions, Homages, and Anti-Occupational Allegories of Autonomy: The Case of Schiller’s Bohemian Cup and Kleist’s Broken Jug 118
12. 6: Anti-Napoleonic Rage and the Hope for a Better Future: Collin between Schiller and Kleist 163
13. Part II. Kleist’s Philosophical Paradigms
14. 7: Fiat claritas et pereat opus: Equity and the Limits of Rectification in Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas 195
15. 8: Kleist, Johann Joachim Spalding, and the Bestimmung des Menschen: Philosophy as a Way of Life? 209
16. 9: War Games: Kleist, Adam Ferguson, and the Cultural Poetics of Play 233
17. 10: Economic Concepts and Authorial Self-Design in Heinrich von Kleist’s Letters 254
18. 11: Gender and the Politics of Recognition in Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s Foundations of Natural Right and Kleist’s Amphitryon 287
19. 12: Kleist and Haiti—Beyond Hegel 308
20. Notes on the Contributors 329
21. Index 335