Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-91291-2 (ISBN)
This book investigates intersections between the philosophy of nature and Hellenism in British and German Romanticism, focusing primarily on five central literary/philosophical figures: Friedrich Schelling, Friedrich Hölderlin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron. Near the end of the eighteenth century, poets and thinkers reinvented Greece as a site of aesthetic and ontological wholeness, a move that corresponded with a refiguring of nature as a dynamically interconnected web in which each part is linked to the living whole. This vision of a vibrant materiality that allows us to become "one with all that lives," along with a Romantic version of Hellenism that wished to reassemble the broken fragments of an imaginary Greece as both site and symbol of this all-unity, functioned as a two-pronged response to subjective anxiety that arose in the wake of Kant and Fichte. The result is a form of resistance to an idealism that appeared to leave little roomfor a world of beauty, love, and nature beyond the self.
William S. Davis is an associate professor of Comparative Literature and German at Colorado College, USA.
1. Introduction: Romantic Hellenism, the Philosophy of Nature, and Subjective Anxiety.- 2. Intellectual Intuition: With Hölderlin, "Lost in the Wide Blue".- 3. The Philosophy of Nature: Goethe, Schelling, and the World Soul.- 4. Aesthetic/Erotic Intuition: Hölderlin, Shelley, and the Islands of the Archipelago.- 5. Coda: with Byron on Acrocorinth.
"Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature nonetheless provides interesting analyses that help reassess these divergent paths. The possibility of such a reassessment is found in the structure of Davis's book, which is framed by an interesting idea that illuminates both post post-Kantian philosophy and logical empiricism." (Adam Tamas Tuboly, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, April 01, 2019)
Erscheinungsdatum | 11.07.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | XV, 156 p. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 362 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Schlagworte | Ancient Greece • Byron • Classicism • Epipsychidion • Hyperion • Schelling |
ISBN-10 | 3-319-91291-7 / 3319912917 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-91291-2 / 9783319912912 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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