Provocative Form in Plato Kant Nietzsche (and Others) seeks (1) to liberate form from its
primary affiliation with intellect and with its putative structural function and (2) to
relocate it as the correlate of imagination and desire. Through careful analyses of key texts
in Plato Kant Nietzsche Schelling and others the originary (but largely concealed) sense
of form presents itself as shot through with darkness and play even as it illuminates and
orders experience. Far from being secondary or settled philosophical form is provocative by
its very nature.
