Jena Romanticism

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Jena Romanticism (

late modern philosophy.[1]

Overview

The group of Jena Romantics was led by

Friedrich von Schlegel, who laid down the theoretical basis for Romanticism in the circle’s organ, the Athenaeum
, maintained that the first duty of criticism was to understand and appreciate the right of genius to follow its natural bent.

The greatest imaginative achievement of this circle is to be found in the lyrics and two fragmentary novels by Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, better known by his pseudonym "Novalis".[3] The works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling expounded the Romantic doctrine in philosophy, whereas the theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher demonstrated the necessity of individualism in religious thought.[4] Other notable representatives of the movement include August Ludwig Hülsen[5] and Friedrich Hölderlin.[6]

By 1804, the circle in Jena had dispersed. A second phase of Romanticism was initiated two years later in

Berlin Romanticism
.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Frederick C. Beiser, German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801, Harvard University Press, 2002, p. viii: "the young romantics—Hölderlin, Schlegel, Novalis—[were] crucial figures in the development of German idealism."
  2. ^ "The 'Jena Set' | History Today".
  3. ^ Joel Faflak, Julia M. Wright (eds.), A Handbook of Romanticism Studies, John Wiley & Sons, 2016, p. 334.
  4. ^ Despite the fact that Schleiermacher did not work in Jena, he was deeply influenced by the writings of the Jena Romantics (see Paola Mayer, Jena Romanticism and Its Appropriation of Jakob Böhme, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999, p. 101).
  5. ^ Ezequiel L. Posesorski, Between Reinhold and Fichte: August Ludwig Hülsen's Contribution to the Emergence of German Idealism. Karlsruhe: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, 2012, p. 199.
  6. ^ Paul Redding, Continental Idealism: Leibniz to Nietzsche, Routledge, 2009, ch. 8.

References

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