The question of Heinrich von Kleist's reading and reception of Kant's philosophy has never been satisfactorily answered, and, after having been neglected during the heyday of postmodernism, is returni
The great and eccentric German writer Heinrich von Kleist, famous for his enigmatic dramas and novellas, read the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant in 1801. A series of letters written around th
J. M. Coetzee is perhaps the most critically acclaimed bestselling author of imaginative fiction writing in English today. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and is the first writer to
Modernity, with its lack of a self-legitimating ethico-philosophical system and reliance for legitimacy on discursive formations without ultimate foundation, poses the problem of homo politicus - the
J. M. Coetzee, arguably the most decorated and critically acclaimed writer of fiction today, is a deeply intellectual writer. Yet while just about everyone who comes to Coetzee's writing is aware that
Karl Leonhard Reinhold was an important expositor of Kant's thought and is considered to have been the bridge between Kant and the later German idealists. The translation into English of Reinhold's ma
Translators Tim Mehigan and Barry Empson bring to the English-speaking audience the first translation into English of Reinhold's major work from 1789. They provide an introduction to the "...towering
