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). Acknowledgements
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Contributors
Introduction
PART ONE German Romanticism as a Philosophical Movement
1. What is Early German Romantic Philosophy?
Manfred Frank
2. Romanticism and Idealism
Frederick Beiser
PART TWO History, Hermeneutics and Sociability
3. History, Succession, and German Romanticism
Karl Ameriks
4. Romanticism and Language
Michael N. Forster
5. Hermeneutics, Individuality, and Tradition: Schleiermacher's Idea of Bildung in the Landscape of Hegelian Thought
Kristin Gjesdal
6. Sociability and the Conduct of Philosophy: What We Can Learn from Early German Romanticism
Jane Kneller
PART THREE Literature, Art and Mythology
7. "Doch sehnend stehst /Am Ufer du" ("But Longing You Stand On the Shore"): Hölderlin, Philosophy, Subjectivity, and Finitude
Richard Eldridge
8. On the Defense of Literary Value: From Early German Romanticism to Analytic Philosophy of Literature
Brady Bowman
9. "No Poetry, No Reality": Schlegel, Wittgenstein, Fiction and Reality
Keren Gorodeisky
10. The Simplicity of the Sublime: A New Picturing of Nature in Caspar David Friedrich
Laure Cahen-Maurel
11. The New Mythology: Romanticism between Religion and Humanism
Bruce Matthews
PART FOUR Science and Nature
12. Mathematics, Computation, Language and Poetry: The Novalis Paradox
Paul Redding
13. Friedrich Schlegel's Romantic Calculus: Reflections on the Mathematical Infinite around 1800
John H. Smith
14. The "Mathematical" Wissenschaftslehre: On a Late Fichtean Reflection of Novalis
David W. Wood
15. Irritable Figures: Herder's Poetic Empiricism
Amanda Jo Goldstein
16. Romantic Empiricism after the "End of Nature": Contributions to Environmental Philosophy
Dalia Nassar
Works Cited
Index