From Romanticism to Critical Theory: The Philosophy of German Literary Theory

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ISBN: 9780415127622 | 0415127629
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Copyright: 12/16/1996

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From Romanticism to Critical Theoryexplores the philosophical roots of literary theory through the traditions of German philosophy that started with the Romantic reactions to Kant. Andrew Bowie traces the continuation of the Romantic tradition, culminating in Heidegger's approaches to art and truth, the work of Adorno and Benjamin and the Frankfurt School's Critical Theory.

Preface and acknowledgements

vii

Introduction: renewing the theoretical canon

(1)

The roots of literary theory

(3)

Literature, aesthetics and ideology

(9)

The Romantic heritage

(3)

The truth of literature

(12)

Philosophical origins: Kant, Jacobi, and the crisis of reason

(25)

New frameworks

(2)

Kant and the critique of the `ready-made world'

(5)

Jacobi: `being' and the critique of metaphysics

(6)

`Pure reason listens only to itself': from metaphysics to literary theory

(12)

Shifting the ground: `where philosophy ceases literature must begin'

(12)

`The philology of philosophy' (Friedrich Schlegel)

(3)

Judgement, schema and language

(5)

`To begin with one only spoke in poetry'

(4)

The philosophy of critique and the critique of philosophy: Romantic literary theory

(25)

`The ridiculous mistake, that people think they speak for the sake of things'

(10)

`All highest truths of every kind are thoroughly trivial'

(5)

`Transcendental literature'

(6)

The aesthetic and the hermeneutic imperatives

(4)

Interpretative reasons

(14)

The `anarchy of convictions'

(3)

Spirit and letter

(6)

Knowing what we mean: the semantic and hermeneutic alternatives

(5)

The ethics of interpretation: Schleiermacher

104

(34)

Beginning in the middle

104

(2)

Playing by the rules

106

(10)

`Thought' and `feeling'

116

(10)

`There is no such thing as a language'/`there is no such thing as literature'

126

(12)

Being true: Dilthey, Husserl and Heidegger (1)

138

(26)

Heideggerian questions

138

(6)

Understanding and explaining

144

(9)

Understanding being

153

(11)

The truth of art: Heidegger (2)

164

(29)

The turn to art

164

(6)

Putting the truth into the work

170

(12)

The subject of art

182

(11)

Understanding Walter Benjamin

193

(45)

Language and origins

193

(12)

`The concept of art-critique in German Romanticism'

205

(9)

Salvaging the truth

214

(15)

Redemption or illusion?

229

(9)

The culture of truth: Adorno

238

(43)

Adorno and Benjamin: paradigms of modern aesthetics

238

(10)

`Dreamlike anticipation': Adorno's earliest philosophy

248

(3)

The `dissolution of what has up to now been called philosophy'

251

(5)

Words put in question

256

(9)

Art, schematism and philosophy

265

(7)

Literature, truth and the critique of `identity'

272

(9)

Conclusion

281

(20)

Notes

301

(34)

Bibliography

335

(7)

Index

342

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