An edition of In praise of nonsense (1999)
In praise of nonsense
Kant and Bluebeard
By Winfried Menninghaus
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Publish Date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Language
eng
Pages
257
Description:
"Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing - such are the examples Kant's Critique of Judgement offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic beauty, Menninghaus's book demonstrates that all these examples refer to a widely unknown debate on the arabesque and that Kant, in displacing it, addresses genuinely "modern" phenomena. The early Romantic poetics and literature of the arabesque follow and radicalize Kant's move."--BOOK JACKET.