Abstract
The aim of the present paper is to show Novalis’ complete belonging to the history of transcendental philosophy by bringing out the connection between his conception of poetry and the issue of transcendental imagination in Kant and Fichte. Given that solving this problem is the main issue around which Novalisian thought is structured, an attempt is made to consider the writing style adopted by the author as necessary to fulfill this task, and not as an arbitrary rhetorical choice. The connection between poetry and philosophy is then explored in the practical role it has to play among human beings, namely, that of revealing the meaning of the whole reality as a manifestation of the absolute. Thus, life itself is properly displayed by the singular existences as absolute creativity, such as that of poetical creations.
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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