The Limits of Voice: Montaigne, Schlegel, KafkaThis work contains an analysis of literary experience as a case of aesthetic experience. In response to the questions raised by the rise of subjectivity, it argues that though traces of subjectivity can be identified in the writings of Montaigne, only Kant provided the necessary philosophical legitimation of subjectivity. Schlegel's work is considered as both the beginning and culmination of philosophical aesthetics while Kafka's writing is seen as a fictional work which, without taking itself as Truth, refrains from affirming any Truth, and questions Truths as fictions. |
Contents
ence of the Self and Mark of Criticity 64 In the Way of a Synthesis | 68 |
Critic of Romanticism 107 Schiller and the Aestheticization of Art | 115 |
A Final Rectification 170 The End of the Critical | 177 |
Before the | 183 |
A Religious Novel? 274 The Desubstantialization of the | 303 |
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