{"product_id":"pretexts-for-writing-sezan-m-williams-9781684480524","title":"Pretexts for Writing: German Romantic Prefaces, Literature, and Philosophy","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eDichter und Denker\u003c\/i\u003e. Goethe, Jean Paul, and Hegel (among many others) used the \u003ci\u003epreface\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Seán M. Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1684480523\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684480524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bucknell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2019","brand":"Seán M. Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097058353407,"sku":"9781684480524","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pretexts-for-writing-sezan-m-williams-9781684480524","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}