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ISBN10: 082231519X, ISBN13: 9780822315193, [publisher: Durham ; London : Duke Univ. Press.] Softcover VIII, 374 S. ; 24 cm Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - leicht bestoßen, ansonsten tadelloser Zustand / slightly scuffed, otherwise perfect condition - Novalis: Signs of Revolution traces the meteoric career of one of the most striking - and most strikingly misunderstood - figures of German Romanticism. Although Friedrich von Hardenberg (better known by his pseudonym, Novalis) published scarcely eighty pages of writings in his lifetime, his considerable fame and influence continued to spread long after his death in 1801. His posthumous reputation, however, was largely based on the myth manufactured by opportunistic editors, as Wm. Arctander O'Brien reveals in this book, the first to extract Hardenberg from the distortions of history. -- A member of the generation of the 1770s that included Hegel, Holderlin, and Schelling, Hardenberg was an avid follower of the French Revolution, a semiotician avant la lettre, and a prescient critic of religion. Yet in 1802, only a year after his death, the writer who had scandalized the Prussian court was marketed to a nation at war as a reactionary patriot, a sweet versifier of Idealism, ...
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ISBN10: 082231519X, ISBN13: 9780822315193, [publisher: Durham ; London : Duke Univ. Press.] Softcover VIII, 374 S. ; 24 cm Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - leicht bestoßen, ansonsten tadelloser Zustand / slightly scuffed, otherwise perfect condition - Novalis: Signs of Revolution traces the meteoric career of one of the most striking - and most strikingly misunderstood - figures of German Romanticism. Although Friedrich von Hardenberg (better known by his pseudonym, Novalis) published scarcely eighty pages of writings in his lifetime, his considerable fame and influence continued to spread long after his death in 1801. His posthumous reputation, however, was largely based on the myth manufactured by opportunistic editors, as Wm. Arctander O'Brien reveals in this book, the first to extract Hardenberg from the distortions of history. -- A member of the generation of the 1770s that included Hegel, Holderlin, and Schelling, Hardenberg was an avid follower of the French Revolution, a semiotician avant la lettre, and a prescient critic of religion. Yet in 1802, only a year after his death, the writer who had scandalized the Prussian court was marketed to a nation at war as a reactionary patriot, a sweet versifier of Idealism, ...
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ISBN10: 082231519X, ISBN13: 9780822315193, [publisher: Duke University Press Books, US] Softcover Pages are clean. Binding is sound, spine is uncreased. Covers are overall clean, light scuffing and rubbing, and show minor edgewear - rubbing, slight creasing and curling at corners. Text block is lightly soiled. PICTURES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.
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