The Relevance of Romanticism: Essays on German Romantic Philosophy

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 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): Holderlin, 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

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).