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"In this incisive, original book, S. Williams reads prefaces to German literature and philosophy around 1800 as pretexts for writing, examining three of the most remarkable preface-writers of that era--Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel--in the contexts not only of German, but also European print culture, thought, and literature"-- "Around 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tradition of Dichter und Denker. Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel (among many others) used the preface in order to reflect on the problems of writing itself, and its interpretation. If Sterne teaches us that a material book enables mind games as much as it gives expression to them, the Germans made these games more theoretical still. Weaving in authors from Antiquity to Agamben, Williams shows how European-and, above all, German-Romanticism was a watershed in the history of the preface. The playful, paradoxical strategies that Romantic writers invented are later played out in continental philosophy, and in post-Structuralist literature. The preface is a prompt for playful thinking with texts, as much as it is conventionally the prosaic product of such an exercise"--

German literature --- Prefaces --- History and criticism. --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, --- Jean Paul, --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, --- Hegel, Giorgio Guglielmo Frederico --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich --- Paul, Jean, --- Richter, Johann Paul Friedrich, --- Rikhter, Zhen Polʹ Friderik, --- Richter, Jean Paul, --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang --- Goethe --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von --- Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang --- von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang --- Hete, Johann Vol'fhanh --- Gete, Iogann Vol'fgang --- ゲーテ --- Gete, Volʹfgang --- Ko-tê --- Gede --- Gete, Jogann --- Gette --- Gʹote, Ĭokhan Volʹfgang --- Jūtah, Yūhān Fūlfjānj --- Goethe, J. W. --- Jītī --- Gete, V. --- Koetʻe --- Goetʻe --- Getė, --- Gkaite --- Gitah, Y. Ṿ. --- Goethe, Jan Wolfgan, --- Gëte, Iogann Volʹfgang --- Göte --- Gyoete --- Goethe, W. v. --- Fon-Geteh, Ṿ. --- Geteh, Yohan Ṿolfgang Fon --- -Giteh, Yohan Ṿolfgang Fon --- -Gete, Johan Volfgang --- Hete, Ĭ. V. --- Kēōtʻē, Volfkank --- Katē --- Katē, Yōkān̲ Vulpkēṅk Vān̲ --- Гете, Иоганн Вольфганг --- Qöte, Y. V. --- Qöte, Yohan Volfqanq --- גטה --- גטה, יוהאן וולפגנג פון, --- גטה, י.ו --- גיתה --- גיתה, יוהאן וולפאנג פון --- גיתה, יוהאן וולפגנג פון, --- גיתה, יוהן וולפגאנג וון, --- גיתה, יוהן וולפגנג פון, --- גיתה, יוהן וולפגנג, --- געטהע --- געטהע, יאהאן וואלפגאנג --- געטהע, יאהאן וואלפגאנג פון, --- געטהע, יאהאן װאלפגאנג, --- געטהע, י. וו --- געטהע, י. וו. פאן --- געטהע, י. װ., --- געטהע, י.װ --- געטע, װ.פ --- גתה, וו --- גתה, יוהן וולפגאנג ון, --- גתה, יוהן וולפגנג --- י. וו. געטהע --- جوته --- گوته، يوهان ولفگانگ ون --- 歌德, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Prefaces. --- German literature. --- PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. --- Prologues and epilogues --- Gede, --- Gëte, Iogann Volʹfgang, --- Gete, Jogann, --- Gete, Johan Volfgang, --- Gete, Volʹfgang, --- Gēte, Yohan Vorufugangu fon, --- Geteh, Yohan Ṿolfgang Fon-, --- Gette, --- Gitah, Y. Ṿ., --- Giteh, Yohan Ṿolfgang Fon-, --- Gkaite, --- Goetʻe, --- Goethe, --- Goethe, Jan Wolfgang, --- Göte, --- Gʹote, Ĭokhan Volʹfgang, --- Gyoete, --- Jītī, --- Jūtah, Yūhān Fūlfjānj, --- Katē, --- Katē, Yōkān̲ Vulpkēṅk Vān̲, --- Kēōtʻē, Volfkank, --- Ko-tê, --- Koetʻe, --- Qöte, Yohan Volfqanq, --- Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, --- Chenkel, --- Gegelʹ, Georg, --- Hegel, --- Hegel, G. W. F. --- Hegel, Guillermo Federico, --- Hegel, Jorge Guillermo Federico, --- Hēgeru, --- Hei Ge Er, --- Hei-ko-erh, --- Heyel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, --- Hīghil, --- Higil, Gʼūrg Vīlhim Frīdrīsh, --- Hījil, --- Khegel,