Representation and Its Discontents: The Critical Legacy of German Romanticism

by Azade Seyhan

Book Overview

Azade Seyhan provides a concise, elegantly argued introduction to the critical theory of German Romanticism and demonstrates how its approach to the metaphorical and linguistic nature of knowledge is very much alive in contemporary philosophy and literary theory. Her analysis of key thinkers such as Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis explores their views on rhetoric, systematicity, hermeneutics, and cultural interpretation. Seyhan examines German Romanticism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520076761
• ISBN13: 9780520076761
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.7"