Romanticism, Philosophy, and Literature

Michael N. Forster is Alexander von Humboldt Professor, holder of the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy, and Co-Director of the International Centre for Philosophy at Bonn University in Germany. Lina Steiner teaches philosophy of literature and directs a research center on philosophy and literature at Bonn University in Germany.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Novalis’ Fichte-Studies: A ‘Constellational’ Approach by Manfred Frank.- 3. Dialectic and Imagination in Friedrich Schlegel by Andreas Arndt.- 4. Hegel as an Attendee of Schlegel’s Lectures on Transcendental Philosophy in Jena by Johannes Korngiebel.- 5. Schleiermacher and the “Consideration for the Foreign”: The Need to Belong and Cosmopolitanism in Romantic Germany by François Thomas.- 6. Romantic Antisemitism by Frederick C. Beiser.- 7. Mythology and Modernity by Helmut Hühn.- 8. Schlegel’s Incomprehensibility and Life: From Literature to Politics by Giulia Valpione.- 9. The Fragment: The Fragmentary Exigency by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy.- 10. Hölderlin and Romanticism by Rainer Schäfer.- 11. Romantic Self-Transformation in Kierkegaard by Fred Rush.- 12. Romanticism and The Birth of Tragedy by Michael N. Forster.- 13. Shandeanism, the Imagination, and Mysticism: Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria  by James Vigus.- 14. The Experience of Everything: Romantic Writing and Post-Kantian Phenomenology  by Paul Hamilton .- 15. Dostoevsky as a Romantic Novelist by Lina Steiner.

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