Philosophical romanticism / edited by Nikolas Kompridis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kompridis, Nikolas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanticism.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 304 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Philosophical Romanticism is one of the first books to address the relationship between philosophy and romanticism, an area which is currently undergoing a major revival. This collection of specially written articles by world-class philosophers renews the tradition of philosophical romanticism by exploring and enlarging its contribution to topics such as freedom, autonomy and subjectivity; the normativity of the new; philosophy's relation to its own time; memory and imagination; art and ethics; skepticism and irony; and cosmology and technology.

While the roots of romanticism are to be found in Kant, German romanticism and German idealism, Philosophical Romanticism shows that it is not a purely European phenomenon: the development of romanticism can be traced through to North American philosophy in the era of Thoreau, Emerson and Dewey, and up to the current work of Stanley Cavell, Charles Taylor and Richard Rorty. The articles in this collection suggest that philosophical romanticism offers a compelling alternative to both the reductionist tendencies of naturalism dominating current "analytic" philosophy, and the skeptical tendencies dominating current "continental" philosophy. This outstanding collection will be of interest to those studying philosophy, literature and nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought.

Contents:

Introduction: re-inheriting romanticism / Nikolas Kompridis 1

Part I Beginning anew 19

1 The future of possibility / Stanley Cavell 21

2 The idea of a new beginning: a romantic source of normativity and freedom / Nikolas Kompridis 32

3 Authenticity with teeth: positing process / David Kolb 60

Part II Self-determination and self-expression 79

4 Letting oneself be determined: a revised concept of self-determination / Martin Seel 81

5 Romantic subjectivity in Goethe and Wittgenstein / Richard Eldridge 97

6 On "becoming who one is" (and failing): Proust's problematic selves / Robert Pippin 113

Part III Art and irony 141

7 Poesy and the arbitrariness of the sign: notes for a critique of Jena romanticism / J. M. Bernstein 143

8 Irony and romantic subjectivity / Fred Rush 173

9 Novalis' other way out / Jane Kneller 196

Part IV The living force of things 215

10 The paradox of romantic metaphysics / Frederick Beiser 217

11 Broken symmetries: the romantic search for a moral cosmology / Albert Borgmann 238

Part V Returning the everyday 263

12 Further reflections on Heidegger, technology, and the everyday / Hubert L. Dreyfus, Charles Spinosa 265

13 Beginning in wonder: placing the origin of thinking / Jeff Malpas 282.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415256437

0415256445

0203507371

OCLC:

62711988

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