Brill’s Companion to German Romantic Philosophy

Elizabeth Millán Brusslan is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She works on aesthetics, German Idealism/Romanticism and Latin American Philosophy. In 2004-5, she was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for a project on Humboldt’s view of nature and she has published several articles on that topic. Other publications include: Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy (SUNY, 2007) with Bärbel Frischmann, Das neue Licht der Frühromantik/The New Light of German Romanticism (Schöningh Verlag, 2008), and several articles on the relation between German Idealism and Romanticism.Judith Norman is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She has written on Nietzsche and Schopenhauer as well as early German Romanticism – most recently “The Question of Romantic Desire” in Sally Sedgwick and Dina Emundts eds., Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus, vol. 13 (2018). She has translated Nietzsche for Cambridge University Press, including Beyond Good and Evil, Twilight of the Idols, and Ecce Homo. Together with Alistair Welchman, she has also translated both volumes of Schopenhauer’s World as Will and Representation.

• AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction1 The Copernican Turn in Early German RomanticismJane Kneller2 Romantic Views of LanguageHoward Pollack-Milgate3 Religion and Early German Romanticism: The Finite and the InfiniteJohn H. Smith4 The Romantic Poetry of Nature: An Antidote to German Idealism’s Eclipsing of Natural BeautyElizabeth Millán Brusslan5 The Philosophy of MythErwin Cook6 Romantic Bildung and the Persistence of TeleologyThomas Pfau7 The Philosophical Relevance of Romantic IronyBärbel Frischmann8 Literary Criticism in the Age of Critical PhilosophyJudith Norman9 Fichte and the Early German RomanticsSusan-Judith Hoffmann10 Hegel’s Critique of Romantic IronyJeffrey Reid11 Hölderlin’s Path: On Sustaining Romanticism from Kant to NietzscheKarl Ameriks12 Homesickness, Interdisciplinarity, and the Absolute: Heidegger’s Relation to Schlegel and NovalisIan Alexander Moore