This thesis is an analysis of dark German Romanticism and its connection to the postpunk ethos in rock music. The music is dark and Romantic because of the artists’ reach beyond finite limits to attain Romantic ideals. The postpunk artists explored, Ian Curtis of Joy Division, R…
Kant’s account of teleology in the Critique of Judgement denied that we could ever have genuine knowledge of living beings; Kant demoted teleological thinking to a heuristic status (albeit a necessary one). Many of Kant’s Idealist successors reacted against this skeptical move, …
Late-eighteenth-century Germany cultivated a pervasive interest in Ancient Egypt. A central symbol of this cultural construct was the Goddess Isis, defined by her well known inscription: "I am all that is, that was, and that shall be and no mortal has lifted my veil." On the sur…
This thesis deals with the literary genre known as legend. During the Middle Ages legends were texts of purely religious character. However, the tradition of writing legends continues into the secularized Modern Age. By way of example, the "Legend of the Seven Sleepers" by Johan…
