Back from the Future. Remarks on Temporality and Totality in the Birth of Classical German Philosophy
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Agustín Lucas Prestifilippo
Abstract
In this paper I propose to study the different combinations between temporality and the idea of totality in the beginning of Classical German Philosophy. In order to do that I will analyze the image of liberation in the philosophical and practical articulation of a new mythology in the manuscript “The Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism”, and the outlines of a theory of the Spirit in the documents written by Hegel in the first part of his Jena stage, more specifically, in the fragments of the period 1803/04. For this purpose I will take as specific objects the figures of an “eternal unity” [dieewige Einheit] to come and of an “absolute becoming” [das absolute Werden] of Spirit. The hypothesis I intend to develop holds that the confrontation of these two images can lead to duplicated consequences: on the one hand, this comparison would make it possible to relativize the binary readings that oppose as terms of a simple contradiction both conceptual lineages, Idealism and Romanticism. On the other hand it would express an insurmountable tension between two ways of thinking about the relationship between time and totality.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Philosophy and Jena Romanticism
- Research Articles
- The Contemporary Significance of Early German Romantic Philosophy
- A Note on Friedrich Schlegel’s Reception of the Wissenschaftslehre
- The Mythology of Reason in “Das älteste Systemprogramm”: A Hegelian Project?
- Serious Jokes: Friedrich Schlegel and the Philosophical Use of Irony
- On the Roots of Romantic Irony and the Pleasure of Being (Mis)understood
- Schelling’s Clara: Romantic Psychotherapy
- The Natural Man: Novalis’ Aesthetic Anthropology
- The Transcendental Grounds of Novalis’ Conception of Life as Poetical Work
- Back from the Future. Remarks on Temporality and Totality in the Birth of Classical German Philosophy
- Novalis’ Metaphysics of Having: A Step Towards an Environmental Conception of the Human–Nature Relationship
- Review Essay
- Jena Romanticism Revisited
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Philosophy and Jena Romanticism
- Research Articles
- The Contemporary Significance of Early German Romantic Philosophy
- A Note on Friedrich Schlegel’s Reception of the Wissenschaftslehre
- The Mythology of Reason in “Das älteste Systemprogramm”: A Hegelian Project?
- Serious Jokes: Friedrich Schlegel and the Philosophical Use of Irony
- On the Roots of Romantic Irony and the Pleasure of Being (Mis)understood
- Schelling’s Clara: Romantic Psychotherapy
- The Natural Man: Novalis’ Aesthetic Anthropology
- The Transcendental Grounds of Novalis’ Conception of Life as Poetical Work
- Back from the Future. Remarks on Temporality and Totality in the Birth of Classical German Philosophy
- Novalis’ Metaphysics of Having: A Step Towards an Environmental Conception of the Human–Nature Relationship
- Review Essay
- Jena Romanticism Revisited
