The Palgrave Handbook Of German Romantic Philosophy [1st Edition]
3030535665, 9783030535667, 9783030535674
This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the philosophical dimensions of German Romanticism,
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Table of contents :
Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism Series......Page 7
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Contents......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 15
Notes on Contributors......Page 16
List of Figures......Page 22
1: The Meaning of German Romanticism for the Philosopher......Page 23
1 Frühromantik and Its Reception......Page 25
2 Overview......Page 26
Part I: Historical Context......Page 39
2: The Poem of the Understanding: Kant, Novalis, and Early German Romantic Philosophy......Page 40
1 Novalis’ Path to Kant......Page 42
2 Kant’s Impact on Novalis......Page 45
3 Novalis’ Reception of Kant in the Kant Studies......Page 47
4 Philosophy, Post-Critique: Novalis’ Enchanted Naturalism......Page 51
3: F.H. Jacobi on Reason and Nihilism in Romanticism......Page 61
1 Atheismusstreit......Page 63
2 Jacobi’s Letter: The Rise of Nihilism......Page 65
3 Faculty of Reason......Page 69
4 Understanding a Modal Category......Page 71
5 On Death and Dying......Page 74
4: Spinoza and Romanticism......Page 84
1 Spinoza’s Modernity and Romanticism......Page 86
2 Spinoza or Romanticism’s Spectral Modernity......Page 95
3 Conclusion: Coleridge’s Imagination and Other Contaminations of Spinoza’s Rationalism......Page 107
References......Page 113
5: Religion and Early German Romanticism......Page 114
1 Historical Preliminaries......Page 115
2 The Reception of Kant’s Groundbreaking Theory of Consciousness......Page 117
3 Schleiermacher and the Philosophy of Religion......Page 127
4 Concluding Remarks......Page 133
6: Femininity and the Salon......Page 137
1 What Is the Salon?......Page 138
2 The Early Days: Henriette Herz and Rahel Varnhagen......Page 144
3 Varnhagen’s Second Salon......Page 145
4 Later Developments, Alternative Formats, and Bettine von Arnim......Page 147
5 Concluding Remarks......Page 148
References......Page 158
7: Fichte’s Subject and Its Romantic Transformations......Page 159
1 Fichte’s Subject and the Space of Positing......Page 160
2 Novalis: The Space of Positing as the Opening to Representation......Page 164
3 Schlegel: The Space of Positing and the Impossibility of Representation......Page 167
4 Conclusion......Page 171
8: Friedrich Schiller and the Aestheticization of Ethics......Page 174
1 Schiller’s Response to Kant in “On Grace and Dignity”......Page 177
2 Schiller’s Project in “On Grace and Dignity”......Page 179
3 Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man......Page 184
4 Conclusion......Page 188
9: Johann Gottfried Herder: Misunderstood Romantic?......Page 194
1 Between Enlightenment, Classicism, and Romanticism: Herder as an Outsider......Page 196
2 Herder’s Concept of Humanität and the Human Being as Middle Point......Page 200
3 Herder on Sculpture and Poetry......Page 204
4 Herder’s Questionable Influence on German Romanticism......Page 211
10: Hermeneutics and Orientation: Retracing the ‘Sciences of the Spirit’ (Geisteswissenschaften) in the Education-Related Writings of Fichte, Schleiermacher and Novalis......Page 221
1 The Founding of the University of Berlin: Applied Romanticism? Or Inoperative Idealism?......Page 222
2 The Hydra-Headed Monster: Schleiermacher and Fichte’s Aspirational Proposals for the Founding of the University of Berlin......Page 224
3 Novalis and the “Highest Task of Education”: The University as an Oasis in “the Deserts of Understanding”22......Page 227
4 A Concluding Reflection About MacIntyre’s Challenge in God, Philosophy, Universities......Page 235
Part II: Aesthetics and Romanticism......Page 246
11: Philosophical Critique and Literary Criticism in German Romanticism......Page 247
1 Philosophical Critique......Page 248
2 Literary Criticism......Page 254
3 Critical Romanticism......Page 260
12: Romantic Irony......Page 268
1 Schlegel’s Transformation of Irony......Page 269
2 Joining Opposites: Romantic Irony......Page 273
3 Novalis’ Encyclopedia and Romantic Irony......Page 274
4 Conclusion......Page 278
13: The Role of the Fragment in German Romantic Philosophy and Nietzsche......Page 283
1 The Aphorism and the Fragment......Page 284
2 Art and Romanticism......Page 288
3 The Significance of the Fragment......Page 290
4 Nietzsche and the Aphorism—A Comparison......Page 294
5 Concluding Remarks......Page 300
14: Early German Romanticism and Literature: Goethe, Schlegel, Novalis and the New Philosophical Importance of the Novel......Page 309
1 Goethe’s Novelistic Project in Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship......Page 313
2 Romantic Readings of Wilhelm Meister......Page 315
3 Romantic Novelistic Responses: Schlegel’s “Contest” of Novels and Novalis’ Turn Against Goethe’s “Candide”......Page 317
4 Romanticism, Idealism and the Novel: Conclusions and Questions......Page 322
1 Introduction: Romanticism and Film, Romanticism on Film1......Page 329
2 The Onscreen Sublime: The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984)......Page 335
3 Ineffable Experience: Nanga Parbat (2010)......Page 343
4 Conclusion......Page 348
Part III: Romanticism and the Sciences......Page 357
16: Romantic Biology: Carl Gustav Carus at the Edge of the Modern......Page 358
1 Carus’s Education Under the Cloud of Napoleonic War......Page 360
2 Teaching and Research at Leipzig......Page 362
3 A Physician During the Battle of Nations......Page 364
4 Move to Dresden: Anatomy and Gynecology......Page 365
5 Friendship with Caspar David Friedrich and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe......Page 368
6 Carus’s Demonstration of Goethe’s Vertebral Theory of the Skull......Page 372
7 Carus and Evolutionary Theory......Page 375
8 The Transformation of Carus’s Ideas in Owen and Darwin......Page 376
9 Conclusion: Romanticism and Evolutionary Theory......Page 378
17: Goethe’s Philosophy of Nature......Page 386
1 Goethe’s Metaphysics......Page 389
2 The Philosophical Relevance of Goethe’s Friendship with Schiller......Page 394
3 Goethe’s Morphological Thought and Bildung......Page 396
4 Goethe and Platonism......Page 402
5 Concluding Remarks......Page 403
18: Romantic Acts of Generation......Page 409
1 Generating the Self......Page 411
2 Generation as Poiesis and Literary Genre......Page 414
3 Generation in Broader Contexts......Page 417
4 Technological Production......Page 421
5 Concluding Remarks......Page 426
19: Arts of Unconditioning: On Romantic Science and Poetry......Page 431
1 Distant Philosophy......Page 432
2 Force and Unconditioning......Page 434
3 Scientific Poiesis......Page 440
4 Romantic Mythology and Speculative Physics......Page 443
5 Arts of Unconditioning......Page 447
6 Critique of the Unconditioned......Page 450
20: Romantic Conceptions of Life......Page 459
1 Historiographical Lag......Page 461
2 Force and Meaning......Page 463
3 Galvanic Signs, or Being Outside of Being Within Being......Page 468
4 Sensibility and Extension, or Naturphilosophie’s Life Science......Page 471
Part IV: Legacy......Page 482
21: Women, Women Writers, and Early German Romanticism......Page 483
1 The Early German Romantic Account of Gender and Its Emancipatory Aspirations......Page 485
2 Criticisms of the Early German Romantic Model of Gender......Page 490
3 The Role of Gender in Early German Romantic Philosophy......Page 494
4 Complexities in the Early German Romantic Approach to Gender......Page 497
5 Early German Romantic Women......Page 500
6 Veit-Schlegel’s (anti-)Bildungsroman......Page 502
7 Karoline von Günderrode, Gender, and the Idea of the Earth......Page 506
8 Conclusion......Page 510
22: Romantic Philosophy as Anthropology......Page 518
23: From the Pantheism Panic to Modern Anxiety: Friedrich Schelling’s Invention of the Philosophy of “Angst”......Page 541
1 The Pantheism Panic: The Danger of a Deterministic Nature......Page 545
2 Toward the Freedom Lectures: Moses Mendelssohn as Implicit Point of Departure......Page 547
3 Dialectics of Ground and Existence: From the Divine Nature to Human Freedom......Page 548
4 Anxiety in the Experience of Freedom......Page 552
5 From the Anxiety of Nature to the Anxious God in Ages......Page 557
6 Anxiety Within the Negativity of the Divine Nature......Page 558
7 Anxiety in Nature’s Regressive Flight from God’s Freedom......Page 560
8 Anxiety in the Free Act of Creation......Page 562
9 Anxiety as a Creative Madness in God......Page 564
24: Romanticism and Pessimism......Page 579
1 The Historical Dimension......Page 582
2 The Logical Dimension......Page 585
1 Romanticism and Music......Page 592
2 Ancients and Moderns......Page 596
3 Drama and Music......Page 599
4 Modernism as Romanticism......Page 603
26: Between Appropriation and Transmission: The Romantic Thread in Heidegger’s Existential Notion of Understanding......Page 612
1 Understanding as an Ontological Historical Condition......Page 614
2 Understanding as the Element in Which Work, Author, and Interpreter Find Their Identity......Page 617
3 Understanding as a Carving Out of the World into Specific Entities......Page 623
4 Concluding Remarks......Page 630
27: Sensibility, Reflection, and Play: Early German Romanticism and Its Legacy in Contemporary Continental Philosophy......Page 636
1 Kant on Aesthetic Ideas and Beauty as a Symbol of Morality......Page 639
2 Schlegel and Novalis......Page 643
3 Walter Benjamin on Critique and Reflection......Page 650
4 Rancière on Play and the Fragment......Page 654
5 Conclusion......Page 659
28: ‘The Concept of Critique’: Between Early German Romanticism and Early Critical Theory......Page 665
1 Benjamin’s Problem-Historical Approach......Page 666
2 Romantic Object Knowledge......Page 667
3 Romantic Art Criticism......Page 670
4 Romantic Sobriety......Page 673
5 Translation as Mode of Critique......Page 676
6 Conclusion......Page 678
29: Romanticism, Anarchism, and Critical Theory......Page 686
1 Landauer: Revolution, Time, Utopia......Page 688
2 Benjamin and Messianic Anti-history......Page 695
3 Novalis and Productive Anachronism......Page 698
4 Coda: Adorno’s Share......Page 700
30: Conclusion: Romantic Currents of Thought: An Open Ending......Page 707
Index......Page 712