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"Sweet dreams, monstered nothings"

catachresis in Kant and Coriolanus

Ortwin de Graef

pp. 231-247

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

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Published in:

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

Pages: 231-247

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-27361-4_14

Full citation:

de Graef Ortwin (1999) „"Sweet dreams, monstered nothings": catachresis in Kant and Coriolanus“, In: A. Hadfield, D. Rainsford & T. Woods (eds.), The ethics in literature, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 231–247.