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The Retreat of Representation
The Concept of Darstellung in German Critical Discourse
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Price: $52.50
Hardcover - 225 pages |
| Release Date: April 1996 |
ISBN10: 0-7914-2911-3
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2911-2
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Price: $31.95
Paperback - 225 pages |
| Release Date: March 1996 |
ISBN10: 0-7914-2912-1
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2912-9
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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.
"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 Heideggerean (and post-Heideggerean) context." -- Rebecca Comay, University of Toronto
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.
Martha B. Helfer is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Utah.
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Table of Contents
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 Darstellung
The Role of Representation in Kant's Epistemology
The Critique of Pure Reason : The Limits of Darstellung
The Critique of Judgment : The Darstellung of Limits
Summary
2. The Idealist Response: From Reinhold to the Romantics
Reinhold's Elementary Philosophy: Recasting Kant's First Critique as a Theory of Representation
Schulze's Aenesidemus : Meta-Critical Skepticism
Fichte's Own Meditations on Elementary Philosophy and the Aenesidemus Review: Defining the Subject as Darstellung
Fichte's Practical Philosophy and Beyond: The Aesthetic Transformation
3. Novalis: The Jena Romantic Poetization of Darstellung
The Fichte-Studies : The Necessary Deception of Darstellung
Klingsohr'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 Subject
The Broken Jug : "Deceived by Appearances"
Epilogue: Romanticism Represented
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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