Contents

pp v-vi

Foreword: A Note on Kleist in American Art, Film, and Literature

pp vii-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: Kleist's Literary and Philosophical Paradigms

pp 1-14

Part I - Kleist's Literary Paradigms

pp 15-16

1 - In the Beginning: Kleist, Genesis, Kafka, and the Pursuit of Epistemological Salvation

pp 17-29

2 - Just Violence? War, Law, and Politics in Kleist's Die Herrmannsschlacht Shakespeare's Henry V

pp 30-51

3 - The Mereau-Brentano Translations of María de Zayas’s “Spanish Novellas” and Kleist's Prose Works

pp 52-95

4 - The Old and the New: Christoph Martin Wieland and Kleist on Parteigeist

pp 96-117

5 - Receptions, Homages, and Anti-Occupational Allegories of Autonomy: The Case of Schiller's Bohemian Cup and Kleist's Broken Jug

pp 118-162

6 - Anti-Napoleonic Rage and the Hope for a Better Future: Collin between Schiller and Kleist

pp 163-192

Part II - Kleist's Philosophical Paradigms

pp 193-194

7 - Fiat claritas et pereat opus: Equity and the Limits of Rectification in Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas

pp 195-208

8 - Kleist, Johann Joachim Spalding, and the Bestimmung des Menschen: Philosophy as a Way of Life?

pp 209-232

9 - War Games: Kleist, Adam Ferguson, and the Cultural Poetics of Play

pp 233-253

10 - Economic Concepts and Authorial Self-Design in Heinrich von Kleist's Letters

pp 254-286

11 - Gender and the Politics of Recognition in Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right and Kleist's Amphitryon

pp 287-307

12 - Kleist and Haiti—Beyond Hegel

pp 308-328

Notes on the Contributors

pp 329-334

Index

pp 335-358