2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-1183.2012.00160.x
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Reading Terrorism in Kleist: The Violence and Mandates of Michael Kohlhaas

Abstract: Kohlhaas recounts scenes of murder and arson. These scenes, vivid yet complex in their unfolding, both urgently demand to be read and at the same time continually resist the framework necessary for reading. Kleist tells a story of a raid on material constructs as well as on political semiology, but the qualities of the objects or emblems under assault cannot be quantified in fixed terms: it is neither simply a tale of revenge that would restore a pre-given economy, nor merely one of a failed call for revolutio… Show more

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