The Natural Man: Novalis’ Aesthetic Anthropology
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Matteo Cherubini
Abstract
The aim of this work is to show how Novalis designs his own development of Fichte’s and Kant’s gnoseological systems. The analysis is brought upon the distinction between “natural man” and “artificial man” expressed in Novalis’ fragments, and follows his exam of Nature, I and God – all three considered by a Kantian and Fichtean perspective. The conclusion of this paper is to show how two of the main concepts of Novalis’ philosophy (Schweben and Romantisierung) can be used as aesthetical and gnoseological devices to comprehend Novalis’ interpretation of the subject.
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Articles in the same Issue
- 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
