Book of Donmon Teith

By reconsidering Kleist's reception of Rousseau and placing it in historical context, this book sheds new light on a range of political and ethical issues at pl

The figure of the barbarian has captivated the Western imagination from Greek antiquity to the present. Since the 1990s, the rhetoric of civilization versus bar

Challenges traditional views of Kleist by situating his work in relation to the political and philosophical debates of his age. The German writer Heinrich von K

Rousseau has been seen as the inventor of the concept of nature; in this collective volume philosophers and literary specialists from France and the United Stat