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Foreword: A note on Kleist in American art, film, and literature / Paul Michael Lützeler -- Introduction: Kleist's literary and philosophical paradigms / Jeffrey L. High, Rebecca Stewart, and Elaine Chen -- In the beginning : Kleist, Genesis, Kafka, and the pursuit of epistemological salvation / Gail K. Hart -- Just violence? War, law, and politics in Kleist's Die Herrmannsschlacht and Shakespeare's Henry V / Steven Howe -- The Mereau-Brentano translations of María de Zayas's "Spanish novellas" and Kleist's prose works / Jeffrey L. High and Lisa Beesley -- The old and the new : Christoph Martin Wieland and Kleist on Parteigeist / John A. McCarthy -- Receptions, homages, and anti-occupational allegories of autonomy : the case of Schiller's Bohemian cup and Kleist's Broken jug / Jeffrey L. High and Elaine Chen -- Anti-Napoleonic rage and the hope for a better future : Collin between Schiller and Kleist / Rebecca Stewart -- Fiat claritas et pereat opus : equity and the limits of rectification in Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas / John T. Hamilton -- Kleist, Johann Joachim Spalding and the Bestimmung des Menschen : philosophy as a way of life? / Laura Anna Macor -- War games : Kleist, Adam Ferguson, and the cultural poetics of play / Christian Moser -- Economic concepts and authorial self-design in Heinrich von Kleist's letters / Johannes Endres -- Gender and the politics of recognition in Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Foundations of natural right and Kleist's Amphitryon / Bernd Fischer -- Kleist and Haiti -- with and beyond Hegel / Katrin Pahl. "Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) was a rebel who upset canonization by employing his predecessors and contemporaries as what Steven Howe calls "inspirational foils." It was precisely a keen awareness of literary and philosophical traditions that allowed Kleist to shatter prevailing paradigms. Though little is known about what specifically Kleist read, the frequent allusions in his enduringly modern oeuvre indicate fruitful dialogues with both canonical and marginal works of European literature, spanning antiquity (The Old Testament, Sophocles), the Early Modern Period (Shakespeare, De Zayas), the late Enlightenment (Wieland, Goethe, Schiller), and the first eleven years of the nineteenth century (Mereau, Brentano, Collin). Kleist's works also evidence encounters with his philosophical precursors and contemporaries, including the ancient Greeks (Aristotle) and representatives of all phases of Enlightenment thought (Montesquieu, Rousseau, Ferguson, Spalding, Fichte, Kant, Hegel), economic theories (Smith, Kraus), and developments in anthropology, sociology, and law. This volume of new essays sheds light on Kleist's relationship to his literary and philosophical influences and on their function as paradigms to which his writings respond"--
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