Romanticism, Philosophy, and Literature

This book offers a broad re-evaluation of the key ideas developed by the German Romantics concerning philosophy and literature. It focuses not only on their own work, but also on that of their fellow travelers (such as Hölderlin) and their contemporary opponents (such as Hegel), as well as on various reactions to and transpositions of their ideas in later authors, including Coleridge, Byron, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky.

Focuses on philosophy and its relation to literature in Romanticism

Written by scholars of philosophy, literature, and poetry

Examines the strengths and discontents of Romanticism

Auteur

Michael N. Forster is Alexander von Humboldt Professor, holder of the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy, and Co-Director of the International Centre for Philosophy at Bonn University in Germany.

Lina Steiner teaches philosophy of literature and directs a research center on philosophy and literature at Bonn University in Germany.

Résumé

"This volume is, all in all, a testimony of and a contribution to the vibrancy of the field." (Howard Pollack-Milgate, The German Quarterly, Vol. 95 (3), 2022)

"This volume is another milestone achievement by the dynamic duo who ... organized numerous international symposia and publications and thereby brought to new life the global study of the history of philosophy in general, and galvanized the study of philosophy and literature in particular. ... The overall quality of the essays is very high, and several make seminal contributions to scholarship. ... This very rich collection thus promises to be a welcome signpost to future research." (Henry W. Pickford, SYMPHILOSOPHIE, Issue 3, 2021)

Contenu

1. Introduction

PART I: PHILOSOPHY

2. Novalis' Fichte-Studies : A 'Constellational' Approach by Manfred Frank

3. Dialectic and Imagination in Friedrich Schlegel by Andreas Arndt

4. Hegel as an Attendee of Schlegel's Lectures on Transcendental Philosophy in Jena by Johannes Korngiebel

5 . Schleiermacher and the Consideration for the Foreign: The Need to Belong and Cosmopolitanism in Romantic Germany by François Thomas

6. Romantic Antisemitism by Frederick C. Beiser

PART II: PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE

7 . Mythology and Modernity by Helmut Hühn

8. Schlegel's Incomprehensibility and Life: From Literature to Politics by Giulia Valpione

9 . The Fragment: The Fragmentary Exigency by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy

10. Hölderlin and Romanticism by Rainer Schäfer

11 . Romantic Self-Transformation in Kierkegaard by Fred Rush

12 . Romanticism and The Birth of Tragedy by Michael N. Forster

13. Shandeanism, the Imagination, and Mysticism: Coleridge's Biographia Literaria

by James Vigus

14 . The Experience of Everything: Romantic Writing and Post-Kantian Phenomenology

by Paul Hamilton

15. Dostoevsky as a Romantic Novelist by Lina Steiner