Using Phillipe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy''s groundbreaking study of the persistence of German Idealist philosophy as his starting point, Justin Clemens presents a valuable study of the links between Romanticism and contemporary theory. The central contention of this book is that contemporary theory is still essentially Romantic - despite all its declarations to the contrary, and despite all its attempts to elude or exceed the limits bequeathed it by Romantic thought. The argument focuses on the ruses of ''Romanticism''s indefinable character'' under two main rubrics, ''Contexts'' and ''Interventions''. The first three chapters investigate ''Contexts'', examining some of the broad trends in the historical and institutional development of Romantic criticism; the second section, ''Interventions'', comprises close readings of the work of Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze and F-x Guattari, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Ian Hunter and Alain Badiou. In the first chapter Clemens identifies and t
