A01=Dalia Nassar
art
Author_Dalia Nassar
becoming
being
Category=QDH
epistemology
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fichte
freedom
friedrich schelling
germany
goethe
hegel
hemsterhuis
idealism
identity
jacobi
kant
knowing
metaphysics
mind
nature
nonfiction
novalis
ontology
philosophy
romantic novel
romanticism
schlegel
self
spinoza
spirit
subjectivity
the absolute
transcendentalism
von hardenberg
whole
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- ISBN 9780226084060
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 17 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 30 Dec 2013
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The absolute was one of the most significant philosophical concepts in the early nineteenth century, particularly for the German romantics. Its exact meaning and its role within philosophical romanticism remain, however, a highly contested topic among contemporary scholars. In The Romantic Absolute, Dalia Nassar offers an illuminating new assessment of the romantics and their understanding of the absolute. In doing so, she fills an important gap in the history of philosophy, especially with respect to the crucial period between Kant and Hegel. Scholars today interpret philosophical romanticism along two competing lines: one emphasizes the romantics' concern with epistemology, the other their concern with metaphysics. Through careful textual analysis and systematic reconstruction of the work of three major romantics - Novalis, Friedrich Schlegel, and Friedrich Schelling - Nassar shows that neither interpretation is fully satisfying. Rather, she argues, one needs to approach the absolute from both perspectives.
Rescuing these philosophers from frequent misunderstanding, and even dismissal, she articulates not only a new angle on the philosophical foundations of romanticism but on the meaning and significance of the notion of the absolute itself.
Dalia Nassar is assistant professor of philosophy at Villanova University and an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Sydney.
