Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of

This book addresses the philosophical reception of early German Romanticism and offers the first in-depth study in English of the movement's most important philosopher, Friedrich Schlegel, presenting his philosophy against the background of the controversies that shaped its emergence. Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert begins by distinguishing early German Romanticism from classical German Idealism, under which it has all too often been subsumed, and then explores Schlegel's romantic philosophy (and his rejection of first principles) by showing how he responded to three central figures of the post-Kantian period in Germany-Jacobi, Reinhold, and Fichte-as well as to Kant himself. She concludes with a comprehensive critique of the aesthetic and epistemological consequences of Schlegel's thought, with special attention paid to his use of irony. Book jacket.

Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert is Assistant Professor of Philosphy at DePaul University.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Philosophy and Early German Romanticism	p. 1
The Literary Dimensions of Early German Romanticism	p. 5
Defining Romanticism	p. 10
Schlegel's Antifoundationalism	p. 18
Overview	p. 20
Finding Room for the Romantics between Kant and Hegel	p. 25
Idealism: From Misconceptions to Post-Kantian Variations	p. 28
Searching for the Unity of Thought and Being: Idealist Jager versus Romantic Spurhunde	p. 32
Frank's Romantic Realists versus Beiser's Romantic Idealists	p. 38
On Why Schlegel Is Not Hegel	p. 44
Romantic Skepticism	p. 48
Searching for the Grounds of Knowledge	p. 53
Jacobi's Salto Mortale	p. 54
Schlegel's Reaction to the Salto	p. 57
Reinhold's Elementarphilosophie	p. 62
Aenesidemus and the Shift from Principle to Fact of Consciousness	p. 65
Fichte's Move from Fact to Act of Consciousness	p. 68
Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre: A Tendency to Be Avoided?	p. 71
The Foundations of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre	p. 72
The Clash between Schmid and Fichte	p. 75
Fichte and Schlegel on Critical Philosophy	p. 79
Fichte's Mystical Errors	p. 86
The Spirit versus the Letter of Fichte's Philosophy	p. 91
Niethammer's Influence on the Development of Schlegel's Skepticism	p. 95
Niethammers' Skepticism	p. 97
Niethammer's Appeal to Common Sense	p. 101
Schlegel's Philosophical Debut	p. 109
Schlegel's Critique of Niethammer's Appeal to Common Sense	p. 111
Schlegel's Historical Taxonomy	p. 114
Critique as Metaphilosophy: Kant as Half Critic	p. 117
Revolution, Scientific Method, and Kant's Critical Project	p. 120
Critiquing the Critical Philosopher	p. 122
Away from Kant: Schlegel's Historical Turn	p. 127
Philosophy in Media Res	p. 133
The Wechselerweis and the Search for Truth	p. 134
Philosophy "in the Middle": Between Fichte and Spinoza	p. 137
Destroying the Illusion of the Finite: Schlegel's Critique of the Thing	p. 141
Wilhelm Meister: Schlegel's Model of Coherence	p. 150
The Aesthetic Consequences of Antifoundationalism	p. 159
The Modern Spirit of Romanticism	p. 160
Understanding' Misunderstanding, and Irony	p. 165
Irony and the Necessity of Poetry	p. 170
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 249
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