Heinrich von Kleist and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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 play in Kleist''s work.

Heinrich von Kleist is renowned as an author who posed a radical challenge to the orthodoxies of his age. Today, his works are frequently seen to relentlessly deconstruct the paradigms of Idealism and to reflect a Roma...