Friedrich Schlegel and the emergence of romantic philosophy / Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millán, Elizabeth.

Series:

Intersections (Albany, N.Y.)

SUNY series, Intersections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanticism--Germany.

Romanticism.

Schlegel, Friedrich von, 1772-1829.

Schlegel, Friedrich von.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book addresses the philosophical reception of early German Romanticism and offers the first in-depth study in English of the movement's most important philosopher, Friedrich Schlegel, presenting his philosophy against the background of the controversies that shaped its emergence. Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert begins by distinguishing early German Romanticism from classical German Idealism, under which it has all too often been subsumed, and then explores Schlegel's romantic philosophy (and his rejection of first principles) by showing how he responded to three central figures of the post-Kantian period in Germany—Jacobi, Reinhold, and Fichte—as well as to Kant himself. She concludes with a comprehensive critique of the aesthetic and epistemological consequences of Schlegel's thought, with special attention paid to his use of irony.

Contents:

Intro

Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Philosophy and Early German Romanticism

The Literary Dimensions of Early German Romanticism

Defining Romanticism

Schlegel's Antifoundationalism

Overview

1. Finding Room for the Romantics between Kant and Hegel

Idealism: From Misconceptions to Post-Kantian Variations

Searching for the Unity of Thought and Being:Idealist Jäger versus Romantic Spürhunde

Frank's Romantic Realists versus Beiser's Romantic Idealists

On Why Schlegel Is Not Hegel54

Romantic Skepticism

2. Searching for the Grounds of Knowledge

Jacobi's Salto Mortale

Schlegel's Reaction to the Salto

Reinhold's Elementarphilosophie

Aenesidemus and the Shift from Principle to Fact of Consciousness

Fichte's Move from Fact to Act of Consciousness

3. Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre: A Tendency to Be Avoided?

The Foundations of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre

The Clash between Schmid and Fichte

Fichte and Schlegel on Critical Philosophy

Fichte's Mystical Errors

The Spirit versus the Letter of Fichte's Philosophy

4. Niethammer's Influence on the Development of Schlegel's Skepticism

Niethammer's Skepticism

Niethammer's Appeal to Common Sense

Schlegel's Philosophical Debut

Schlegel's Critique of Niethammer's Appeal to Common Sense

Schlegel's Historical Taxonomy

5. Critique as Metaphilosophy: Kant as Half Critic

Revolution, Scientific Method, and Kant's Critical Project

Critiquing the Critical Philosopher

Away from Kant: Schlegel's Historical Turn

6. Philosophy in Media Res

The Wechselerweis and the Search for Truth

Philosophy "in the Middle": Between Fichte and Spinoza

Destroying the Illusion of the Finite:Schlegel's Critique of the Thing.

Wilhelm Meister: Schlegel's Model of Coherence

7. The Aesthetic Consequences of Antifoundationalism

The Modern Spirit of Romanticism

Understanding, Misunderstanding, and Irony

Irony and the Necessity of Poetry

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-247) and index.

ISBN:

9780791480090

0791480097

9781429471565

1429471565

OCLC:

140266615