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Can I read Philipp Weber: Kosmos und Subjektivität in der Frühromantik. Paderborn: Fink, 2017. 234 S. on EtoBox?
Philipp Weber: Kosmos und Subjektivität in der Frühromantik. Paderborn: Fink, 2017. 234 S. by Siarhei Biareishyk is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Philipp Weber: Kosmos und Subjektivität in der Frühromantik. Paderborn: Fink, 2017. 234 S. about?
Kosmos und Subjektivität in der Frühromantik belongs in a series of recent studies that seek to uncouple early German Romanticism from the still dominant reception of the movement as a nostalgic attempt to return to primordial holistic conceptions of the world and nature, as a philosophy and aesthetics of unity, and as a representative of self-same subjectivity. The contribution and merit of Weber's study consists in subverting the very presupposition of such a reception by systematically articulating the modulations of Romantic cosmology in the works of Friedrich Schlegel, Friedrich Schelling, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Novalis, and Ernst Klingemann. In this systematic reconstruction, Weber shows that the break with the ordered cosmos is the defining characteristic pervasive in the Romantic engagements with cosmology. The outcome of the destruction of the ordered cosmos in Romanticism only becomes discernible in view of its opposite pole, the Romantic conceptions of the subject. The Romantic subject is one that grapples with its own lack of foundation, the abyss that constitutes subjectivity. It emerges as a product of the traumatic break with the cosmos and at once understands its
Who reads Philipp Weber: Kosmos und Subjektivität in der Frühromantik. Paderborn: Fink, 2017. 234 S.?
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- Author
- Siarhei Biareishyk
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)