The persistence of Romanticism : essays in philosophy and literature / Richard Eldridge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

-- Introduction: the persistence of Romanticism -- Kant, Hölderlin, and the experience of longing -- Modernity and expression: Kant on the value of absolute music -- How is the Kantian moral criticism of literature possible? -- Hölderlin's ethical thinking: "the processes of the actual" in "Heidelberg" -- Internal transcendentalism: Wordsworth and "a new condition of philosophy" -- Hypotheses, criterial claims, and perspicuous representations: Wittgenstein's "Remarks on Frazer's The golden bough" -- How can tragedy matter for us? -- Althusser and ideological criticism of the arts -- "A continuing task": Cavell and the truth of skepticism -- Plights of embodied soul: dramas of sin and salvation in Augustine and Updike -- Cavell and Hölderin on human immigrancy.