The Relevance of Romanticism

The Relevance of Romanticism considers the reasons why philosophers have recently become deeply interested in romantic thought. Through historical and systematic reconstructions, the collection offers greater understanding of romanticism as a philosophical movement and deeper insight into the role that romantic thought plays in contemporary philosophical debates.

Dalia Nassar is a research fellow of the Australian Research Council (ARC) in the philosophy department at the University of Sydney and assistant professor of philosophy at Villanova University. She is the author of The Romantic Absolute: Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy 1795-1804 (University of Chicago Press, 2013).

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Introduction
Part 1. German Romanticism as a Philosophical Movement
Chapter 1. Manfred Frank, What is Early German Romantic Philosophy?
Chapter 2. Frederick Beiser, Romanticism and Idealism
Part 2. History, Hermeneutics and Sociability
Chapter 3. Karl Ameriks, History and German Romanticism
Chapter 4. Michael N. Forster, Romanticism and Language
Chapter 5. Kristin Gjesdal, Hermeneutics, Individuality, and Tradition: Schleiermacher's Idea of Bildung in the Landscape of Hegelian Thought
Chapter 6. Jane Kneller, Sociability and the Conduct of Philosophy: What philosophers can learn from early German Romanticism
Part 3. Literature, Art and Mythology
Chapter 7. Richard Eldridge,"Doch sehnend stehst /Am Ufer du"("But longing you stand on the shore"): Hölderlin, Philosophy, Subjectivity, and Finitude
Chapter 8. Brady Bowman, On the Defense of Literary Value: From Early German Romanticism to Analytic Philosophy of Literature
Chapter 9. Keren Gorodeisky, "No Poetry, No Reality": Schlegel, Wittgenstein, Fiction and Reality
Chapter 10. Laure Cahen-Maurel, "A Simple Wheat Field": A New Picturing of the Sublime in Caspar David Friedrich
Chapter 11. Bruce Matthews, The New Mythology: Romanticism Between Religion and Humanism
Part 4. Science and Nature
Chapter 12. Paul Redding, Mathematics, Computation, Language and Poetry: The Novalis Paradox
Chapter 13. John H. Smith, The Romantic Calculus: Infinity, Continuity, Infinitesimal
Chapter 14. David W. Wood, The Wissenschaftslehre as Mathematics: On a Late Fichtean Reflection of Novalis
Chapter 15. Amanda Jo Goldstein, Irritable Figures: Romantic Philosophy of Science by way of Johann Gottfried Herder
Chapter 16. Dalia Nassar, Romantic Empiricism after the 'End of Nature': Contributions to Environmental Philosophy