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The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol (Hardcover)
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The Genealogy of the Romantic Symbol (Hardcover)
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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.
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