Book ID: CBB864627350

Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature (2018)

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William S. Davis (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 156 pages
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Casetta, Elena
Trout, Bernhardt L.
Paolo Vidali
Schulz, Roland
Minkov, Svetozar Y.
Lansley, Charles Morris
Concepts
Nature
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Romanticism
Philosophy of science
Science and literature
Science and culture
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Early modern
Modern
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Europe
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