The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol (Hardcover)

Despite its widely acknowledged importance in and beyond the thought of the Romantic period, the distinctive concept of the symbol articulated by such writers as Goethe and F. W. J. Schelling in Germany and S. T. Coleridge in England has defied adequate historical explanation. In contrast to previous scholarship, Nicholas Halmi's study provides such an explanation by relating the content of Romantic symbolist theory - often criticized as irrationalist - to the cultural needs of its time. Because its genealogical method eschews a single disciplinary perspective, this study is able to examine the Romantic concept of the symbol in a broader intellectual context than previous scholarship, a context ranging chronologically from classical antiquity to the present and encompassing literary criticism and theory, aesthetics, semiotics, theology, metaphysics, natural philosophy, astronomy, poetry, and the origins of landscape painting. The concept is thus revealed to be a specifically modern response to modern discontents, neither reverting to pre-modern modes of thought nor secularizing Christian theology, but countering Enlightenment dualisms with means bequeathed by the Enlightenment itself. This book seeks, in short, to do for the Romantic symbol what Percy Bysshe Shelley called on poets to do for the world: to lift from it its veil of familiarity.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2007
First published:	2008
Authors:	Nicholas Halmi
Dimensions:	223 x 145 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-921241-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > Romanticism Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology
LSN:	0-19-921241-4
Barcode:	9780199212415

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