 The rich imagery and comic misdirections are still present, and the novel remains challenging for today's readers.Jean Paul considered using the title "Anti-Titan" in order to express more clearly the idea of hubris, of the inevitable doom of the "Himmelsstürmer" ("Heaven-stormers") of Romanticism.His aim was also to condemn "the indiscipline of the Saeculum" and the separation of the self from contemplation.