William S. Davis

Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates intersections between the philosophy of nature and Hellenism in British and German Romanticism, focusing primarily on five central literary/philosophical figures: Friedrich Schelling, Friedrich Hölderlin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron. Near the end of the eighteenth century, poets and thinkers reinvented Greece as a site of aesthetic and ontological wholeness, a move that corresponded with a refiguring of nature as a dynamically interconnected web in which each part is linked to the living whole. This vision of a vibrant materiality that allows us to become "one with all that lives," along with a Romantic version of Hellenism that wished to reassemble the broken fragments of an imaginary Greece as both site and symbol of this all-unity, functioned as a two-pronged response to subjective anxiety that arose in the wake of Kant and Fichte. The result is a form of resistance to an idealism that appeared to leave little roomfor a world of beauty, love, and nature beyond the self.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-91291-2
• 1st ed. 2018
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 320g
• ISBN-13: 9783319912912
• ISBN-10: 3319912917
• Artikelnr.: 52335434

Autorenporträt

William S. Davis is an associate professor of Comparative Literature and German at Colorado College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Romantic Hellenism, the Philosophy of Nature, and Subjective Anxiety.- 2. Intellectual Intuition: With Hölderlin, "Lost in the Wide Blue".- 3. The Philosophy of Nature: Goethe, Schelling, and the World Soul.- 4. Aesthetic/Erotic Intuition: Hölderlin, Shelley, and the Islands of the Archipelago.- 5. Coda: with Byron on Acrocorinth.

Rezensionen

"Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature nonetheless provides interesting analyses that help reassess these divergent paths. The possibility of such a reassessment is found in the structure of Davis's book, which is framed by an interesting idea that illuminates both post post-Kantian philosophy and logical empiricism." (Adam Tamas Tuboly, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, April 01, 2019)