The Early Political Writings of the German RomanticsFrederick C. Beiser The Early Political Writings of the German Romantics contains all the essential political writings of Friedrich Schlegel, Schleiermacher and Novalis during the formative period of romantic thought (1797 to 1803). While the political thought of the German romantics has been generally recognised as important, it has been little studied, and most of the texts have been until now unavailable in English. The early romantics had an ambition still relevant to contemporary political thought: how to find a middle path between conservatism and liberalism, between an ethic of community and the freedom of the individual. Frederick C. Beiser's edition comprises all kinds of texts relevant for understanding the political ideas of the early romantic circles in Berlin and Jena - essays, lectures, aphorisms, chapters from books, and jottings from notebooks. All have been translated anew, many for the first time. |
Contents
Preface | vii |
Introduction | xi |
Chronology of early Romanticism | xxxi |
Bibliographical note | xxxv |
Translations | xxxix |
Editions cited and abbreviations | xl |
Anon The Oldest Systematic Programme of German Idealism | 1 |
Novalis Pollen | 7 |
Novalis Fragments from the Notebooks | 81 |
Friedrich Schlegel Essay on the Concept of Republicanism occasioned by the Kantian tract Perpetual Peace | 93 |
Friedrich Schlegel Athenaeum Fragments excerpts | 113 |
Friedrich Schlegel Ideas | 123 |
Transcendental Philosophy excerpts Jena 18001801 | 141 |
Friedrich Schlegel Philosophical Fragments from the Philosophical Apprenticeship excerpts | 159 |
Friedrich Daniel Schleiermacher Monologues II and III | 169 |
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