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The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism

By Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Philip Barnard (Translator), Cheryl Lester (Translator)
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By Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Philip Barnard (Translator), Cheryl Lester (Translator)
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The first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism.

The Literary Absolute is the first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism. The authors trace this concept from the philosophical crisis bequeathed by Kant to his successors, to its development by the central figures of the Athenaeum group: the Schlegel brothers, Schelling, and Novalis.

This study situates the Jena romantics' "fragmen...

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