"Sweet dreams, monstered nothings"

catachresis in Kant and Coriolanus

Ortwin de Graef

pp. 231-247

in: Andrew Hadfield, Dominic Rainsford, Tim Woods (eds), The ethics in literature, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Abstract

The hope that a political product [Staatsprodukt] as it is conceived of here will one day, no matter how far away, come to fulfilment [Vollendung] is a sweet dream [süßer Traum]; yet to approach it is not only thinkable but also, insofar as it can coexist with the moral law, a duty […]1

Cited authors

Kant Immanuel