Romanticism, Hellenism, and the philosophy of nature / William S. Davis.
Davis, William S., author.
2018
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Title
Romanticism, Hellenism, and the philosophy of nature / William S. Davis.
Author
Davis, William S., author.
ISBN
9783319912929 (electronic book)
3319912925 (electronic book)
9783319912912
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91292-9
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-91292-9 doi
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PN750.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.9145
Summary
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 room for a world of beauty, love, and nature beyond the self.
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Intro; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; A Note on Editions and Translations from the German; Chapter 1: Introduction: Romantic Hellenism, the Philosophy of Nature, and Subjective Anxiety; The Chapters; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Intellectual Intuition: With Hölderlin, "Lost in the Wide Blue"; With Hyperion on Acrocorinth; Lost in the Wide Blue; The Hen Kai Pan Society; No Passage Required; Along the Eccentric Path; Bibliography; Chapter 3: The Philosophy of Nature: Goethe, Schelling, and the World Soul; A World Beyond the Self; Goethe, Kleist and the Resistance to Idealism.

Through the Heart of the EarthThe World Poeticized; At the Propylaea; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Aesthetic/Erotic Intuition: Hölderlin, Shelley, and the Islands of the Archipelago; "A Gap in my Existence"; Aesthetic Intuition; The Blue Island; "There You Will Find Her Again"; Reading Diotima; "Still Burning"; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Coda: With Byron on Acrocorinth; Death by Byron; Resisting the Beautiful; Literalizing the Metaphor; Bibliography; Index.

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