Romantic Organicism

CHARLES I. ARMSTRONG is Associate Professor at the English Department of the University of Bergen, Norway, and has been a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge

• Contents Acknowledgements First Articulations PART ONE: GERMAN IDEALISM AND FRÜHROMANTIK Absolute Organicism in German Idealism: Kant, Fichte, and Schelling Prefaces to the New Gospel: Friedrich Schlegel and the Fragment PART TWO: ENGLISH ROMANTICISM Organic Vagaries: Coleridge's Theoretical Work Early Affinities: Friendship and Coleridge's Conversation Poems On the Threshold: Wordsworth's Architectonic of the Absolute PART THREE: MODERN THEORY Balance and Extremity: A Comparison of Richards and Bataille The Connections of Significance: Gadamer and the Vitality of Understanding On the Double: Blanchot, Derrida, and the Step Beyond Ending the Automatic Notes Bibliography Index

'This is extremely impressive work that shows enormous intellectual range, vast reading and great learning.' - Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex and Programme Director of the Collège Internationale de Philosophie, Paris'This book will be of huge interest to anyone interested in the relationsbetween German and British Romanticism, the afterlife of Romantic theory, andthe debates about its continuing presence in the latest negotiations betweenlive philosophical traditions. It possesses a kind of learning which has beenunderrated in British Romantic studies for a long time, and, strikingly, itengages convincingly with the English literary examples which, if theContinental tradition got it right, ought to consolidate that philosophicalapproach.' - Professor Paul Hamilton, School of English and Drama at Queen Mary and Westfield College