Description: Extends the boundaries of Romantic culture from its pre-Kantian past to contemporary theory and beyond.
Review Quotes:
"...this volume does a good job in making the case for rethinking idealism and offers several very compelling and provocative readings ... this is an extremely valuable volume of essays. Rather than offering an overall thesis of 'Idealism without Absolutes, ' it offers specific readings of individual texts or clusters of texts meant to incite conversation and provoke thought." -- H-Net Reviews (H-German)
"...it is the de-absolutizing of Hegel ... that remains the core of this volume and its chief merit ... There is no essay without something worthwhile for any reader compelled by the subject." -- University of Toronto Quarterly
"In providing a first push in the direction of rethinking idealism, as emancipated from the traditional story of absolute positing and absolute understanding, the authors succeed in opening up new avenues for further thought and writing." -- H-Net Review
"This book is a timely revisiting of German Romantic Idealism that energetically explores the implications of the twin propositions of an Idealism without absolutes and a materiality without matter." -- Orrin N. C. Wang, author of Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory
"This book revitalizes Idealism as a viable mode of literary theory, which enriches our developing understanding of Romantic culture. In this sense, the book rejuvenates the field of Romanticism as the paradigm maker for literary analysis." -- Denise Gigante, Stanford University