Alexander J. B. Hampton (University of Toronto)

Romanticism and the Re-Invention of Modern Religion

The Reconciliation of German Idealism and Platonic Realism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how early German Romanticism combined post-Kantian idealism and Platonic-Christian realism to develop a new aesthetics of religion. In explicating the religious vision of Romanticism, it offers a new historical appreciation of the movement, and furthermore demonstrates its importance for our understanding of religion today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 265
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 145mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781108452878
• ISBN-10: 1108452876
• Artikelnr.: 67475638

Autorenporträt

Alexander J. B. Hampton is Assistant Professor in Christianity at the University of Toronto. He specialises in the philosophy of religion and religious aesthetics, with his research considering the role of poetics and Platonism in the shaping of the Christian tradition.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Romantic Religion: Transcendence for an Age of Immanence: 1. The romantic vocation
2. Realism, idealism and the transcendentals
3. Re-contextualising romanticism: the problem of subjectivity
4. Re-contextualising romanticism: the question of Religion
Part II. Give Me a Place to Stand: The Absolute at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century: 5. The immanent absolute: Spinoza and Fichte
6. Jacobi and the transcendence of the absolute
7. Herder and the immanent presence of the transcendent absolute
8. Moritz and the aesthetics of the absolute
Part III. Romantic Religion: The Transcendent Absolute: 9. Platonism and the transcendent absolute
10. Schlegel: the poetic search for an unknown God
11. Holderlin: becoming and dissolution in the absolute
12. Novalis: the desire to be at home in the world
Part IV. Our Romantic Future.