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The Anti-Romantic - Hegel Against Ironic Romanticism (Paperback)
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The Anti-Romantic - Hegel Against Ironic Romanticism (Paperback)
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Hegel's critique of Early German Romanticism and its theory of
irony resonates to the core of his own philosophy in the same way
that Plato's polemics with the Sophists have repercussions that go
to the centre of his thought. The Anti-Romantic examines Hegel's
critique of Fr. Schlegel, Novalis and Schleiermacher. Hegel rarely
mentions these thinkers by name and the texts dealing with them
often exist on the periphery of his oeuvre. Nonetheless,
individually, they represent embodiments of specific forms of
irony: Schlegel, a form of critical individuality; Novalis, a form
of sentimental nihilism; Schleiermacher, a monstrous hybrid of the
other two. The strength of Hegel's polemical approach to these
authors shows how irony itself represents for him a persistent
threat to his own idea of systematic Science. This is so, we
discover, because Romantic irony is more than a rival ideology; it
is an actual form of discourse, one whose performative objectivity
interferes with the objectivity of Hegel's own logos. Thus, Hegel's
critique of irony allows us to reciprocally uncover a Hegelian
theory of scientific discourse. Far from seeing irony as a form of
consciousness overcome by Spirit, Hegel sees it as having become a
pressing feature of his own contemporary world, as witnessed in the
popularity of his Berlin rival, Schleiermacher. Finally, to the
extent that ironic discourse seems, for Hegel, to imply a certain
world beyond his own notion of modernity, we are left with the
hypothesis that Hegel's critique of irony may be viewed as a
critique of post-modernity.
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