Description: Reconsiders major thinkers and works of German Idealism and their legacy for our own restless times.
Brief description: Kristina Mendico is Associate Professor of German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Announcements: On Novelty, also published by SUNY Press, and Prophecies of Language: The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism.
Review Quotes:
"An exciting volume. Each essay thinks through details of German Idealist texts through to the end without compromise or flinching. This gives the book a genuine atmosphere of ambition, wide scope, and invention. New insights emerge on every page, and it is thrilling to read researchers on top of their game doing work that is both so precise and so speculatively far-reaching." - Daniel Whistler, author of Schelling's Theory of Symbolic Language
"Thinking Unrest makes an eloquent case for Hegel, Schelling, and Hölderlin (among others) as critical resources for an age grappling with the ambivalences of its own forms of restlessness. Each essay draws on seminal texts and thinkers of German philosophy and poetry around 1800 to confront the consequences of various sources of restlessness and forms of destabilization: in language, in rhythms, in concepts, in history, in ways of knowing and architectures of knowledge, and in consciousness. The volume thus offers a comprehensive reevaluation of German Idealism and a welcome addition to intellectual history, continental philosophy, literary theory, comparative literature, and German studies." - Gabriel Trop, author of Poetry as a Way of Life: Aesthetics and Askesis in the German Eighteenth Century