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The Contemporary Significance of Early German Romantic Philosophy

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Published/Copyright: October 11, 2023
Human Affairs
From the journal Human Affairs Volume 33 Issue 4

Abstract

Recent interest in early German Romantic philosophy can be linked to other approaches, such as that of John Dewey, which are critical of the dominant direction of modern philosophy. The Romantics rethink the relationship between philosophy and art as a way of questioning modern philosophy’s focus on epistemology and scepticism that leads to a lack of attention to the diverse other ways in which human beings make sense of things.

Keywords: F. Schlegel; Novalis; J. Dewey; philosophy; art; the absolute
Corresponding author: Andrew Bowie, Philosophy Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK, E-mail:

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Received: 2023-07-14
Accepted: 2023-09-26
Published Online: 2023-10-11
Published in Print: 2023-12-15

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Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Editorial
  3. Philosophy and Jena Romanticism
  4. Research Articles
  5. The Contemporary Significance of Early German Romantic Philosophy
  6. A Note on Friedrich Schlegel’s Reception of the Wissenschaftslehre
  7. The Mythology of Reason in “Das älteste Systemprogramm”: A Hegelian Project?
  8. Serious Jokes: Friedrich Schlegel and the Philosophical Use of Irony
  9. On the Roots of Romantic Irony and the Pleasure of Being (Mis)understood
  10. Schelling’s Clara: Romantic Psychotherapy
  11. The Natural Man: Novalis’ Aesthetic Anthropology
  12. The Transcendental Grounds of Novalis’ Conception of Life as Poetical Work
  13. Back from the Future. Remarks on Temporality and Totality in the Birth of Classical German Philosophy
  14. Novalis’ Metaphysics of Having: A Step Towards an Environmental Conception of the Human–Nature Relationship
  15. Review Essay
  16. Jena Romanticism Revisited
https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2023-0086
Keywords for this article
F. Schlegel; Novalis; J. Dewey; philosophy; art; the absolute

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Editorial
  3. Philosophy and Jena Romanticism
  4. Research Articles
  5. The Contemporary Significance of Early German Romantic Philosophy
  6. A Note on Friedrich Schlegel’s Reception of the Wissenschaftslehre
  7. The Mythology of Reason in “Das älteste Systemprogramm”: A Hegelian Project?
  8. Serious Jokes: Friedrich Schlegel and the Philosophical Use of Irony
  9. On the Roots of Romantic Irony and the Pleasure of Being (Mis)understood
  10. Schelling’s Clara: Romantic Psychotherapy
  11. The Natural Man: Novalis’ Aesthetic Anthropology
  12. The Transcendental Grounds of Novalis’ Conception of Life as Poetical Work
  13. Back from the Future. Remarks on Temporality and Totality in the Birth of Classical German Philosophy
  14. Novalis’ Metaphysics of Having: A Step Towards an Environmental Conception of the Human–Nature Relationship
  15. Review Essay
  16. Jena Romanticism Revisited
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