Out of Germany
E.S. Shaffer, 2 October 1980
The German Idea: Four English Writers and the Reception of German Thought 1800-1860
by Rosemary Ashton.
Cambridge, 245 pp., £14.50, April 1980,0 521 22560 4 Show More
by Rosemary Ashton.
Cambridge, 245 pp., £14.50, April 1980,
Criticism in the Wilderness. The Study of Literature Today
by Geoffrey Hartman.
Yale, 314 pp., £11.40, October 1980,0 300 02085 6 Show More
by Geoffrey Hartman.
Yale, 314 pp., £11.40, October 1980,
“... failure to receive German ideas continues into the present, Geoffrey Hartman, for all his full and easy conversance with European thought, self-consciously indicts the Anglo-American failure to receive and practise them, and calls for a form of philosophic criticism even he is unable to ... ”