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The absolute was one of the most significant philosophical concepts
in the early nineteenth century, particularly for the German
romantics. Its exact meaning and its role within philosophical
romanticism remain, however, a highly contested topic among
contemporary scholars. In The Romantic Absolute, Dalia Nassar
offers an illuminating new assessment of the romantics and their
understanding of the absolute. In doing so, she fills an important
gap in the history of philosophy, especially with respect to the
crucial period between Kant and Hegel. Scholars today interpret
philosophical romanticism along two competing lines: one emphasizes
the romantics' concern with epistemology, the other their concern
with metaphysics. Through careful textual analysis and systematic
reconstruction of the work of three major romantics - Novalis,
Friedrich Schlegel, and Friedrich Schelling - Nassar shows that
neither interpretation is fully satisfying. Rather, she argues, one
needs to approach the absolute from both perspectives. Rescuing
these philosophers from frequent misunderstanding, and even
dismissal, she articulates not only a new angle on the
philosophical foundations of romanticism but on the meaning and
significance of the notion of the absolute itself.
The long nineteenth-century-the period beginning with the French
Revolution and ending with World War I-was a transformative period
for women philosophers in German-speaking countries and contexts.
The period spans romanticism and idealism, socialism,
Nietzscheanism, and phenomenology, philosophical movements we most
often associate with Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,
and Marx-but rarely with women. Yet women philosophers not only
contributed to these movements, but also spearheaded debates about
their social and political implications. While today their works
are less well-known than those of their male contemporaries, many
of these women philosophers were widely-read and influential in
their own time. Their contributions shed important new light on
nineteenth-century philosophy and philosophy more generally:
revealing the extent to which various movements which we consider
distinct were joined, and demonstrating the degree to which
philosophy can transform lives and be transformed by lived
experiences and practices. In the nineteenth century, women
philosophers explored a wide range of philosophical topics and
styles. Working within and in dialogue with popular philosophical
movements, women philosophers helped shape philosophy's agenda and
provided unique approaches to existential, political, aesthetic,
and epistemological questions. Though largely deprived formal
education and academic positions, women thinkers developed a way of
philosophizing that was accessible, intuitive, and activist in
spirit. The present volume makes available to English-language
readers-in many cases for the first time-the works of nine women
philosophers, with the hope of stimulating further interest in and
scholarship on their works. The volume includes a comprehensive
introduction to women philosophers in the nineteenth century and
introduces each philosopher and her position. The translations are
furnished with explanatory footnotes. The volume is designed to be
accessible to students as well as scholars.
Since the early 1990s, there has been a resurgence of interest in
philosophy between Kant and Hegel, and in early German romanticism
in particular. Philosophers have come to recognize that, in spite
of significant differences between the contemporary and romantic
contexts, romanticism continues to persist, and the questions which
the romantics raised remain relevant today. The Relevance of
Romanticism: Essays on Early German Romantic Philosophy is the
first collection of essays that offers an in-depth analysis of the
reasons why philosophers are (and should be) concerned with
romanticism. Through historical and systematic reconstructions, the
collection offers a deeper understanding and more encompassing
picture of romanticism as a philosophical movement than has been
presented thus far, and explicates the role that romanticism plays
- or can play - in contemporary philosophical debates. The volume
includes essays by a number of preeminent international scholars
and philosophers - Karl Ameriks, Frederick Beiser, Richard
Eldridge, Michael Forster, Manfred Frank, Jane Kneller, and Paul
Redding - who discuss the nature of philosophical romanticism and
its potential to address contemporary questions and concerns.
Through contributions from established and emerging philosophers,
discussing key romantic themes and concerns, the volume highlights
the diversity both within romantic thought and its contemporary
reception. Part One consists of the first published encounter
between Manfred Frank and Frederick Beiser, in which the two major
scholars directly discuss their vastly differing interpretations of
philosophical romanticism. Part Two draws significant connections
between romantic conceptions of history, sociability, hermeneutics
and education and explores the ways in which these views can
illuminate pressing questions in contemporary social-political
philosophy and theories of interpretation. Part Three consists in
some of the most innovative takes on romantic aesthetics, which
seek to bring romantic thought into dialogue, with, for instance,
contemporary Analytic aesthetics and theories of cognition/mind.
The final part offers one of the few rigorous engagements with
romantic conceptions science, and demonstrates ways in which the
romantic views of nature, scientific experimentation and
mathematics need not be relegated to historical curiosities.
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