... “force” Homer Perhorreszieren comparison Gilroy Paul Jenson Deborah Haitian Revolution Hegel Heinrich von Kleist syncretism When the vivid truths of simple extremes fail us, when opposite convictions spiral away from the answers we seek, the middle of the road starts to look like a safe place...

...The vision of the self that emerges from Heinrich von Kleist's reading of Kantian ethics differs sharply from the figure of specular self-determination generally associated with Idealist thought. In forcing one to reconsider the assumption that language can be a medium of rational activity, Kleist...

... Matheron Alexandre Plato Kant Immanuel Augustine Derrida Jacques Kleist Heinrich von Schmitt Carl Shakespeare William Sussman Henry Bush George W Card Andrew Popular Sovereignty Rousseau Social Contract Obedience Spinoza Revolution Contingency Heinrich von Kleist Michael Kohlhaas...

... of representation, in contrast to an actual performance which has broken through to touch life. Heinrich von Kleist’s “On the Marionette Theater” is not explicitly about authenticity, but about dancing gracefully. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s story about attaining authenticity can be described in three stages with a solid...

... Gailus Andreas Lacan Jacques metonymy Miller J Hillis performativity Derrida Jacques punctuation harmony Benjamin Walter middling Hamacher Werner Jacobs Carol riddle Saussure Ferdinand metaphor Heinrich von Kleist Michael Kohlhaas law and literature mediatization The event of literature...