Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature

• Main Author: Davis, William S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Literature, Modern-18th century.; Intellectual life-History.; Literature-History and criticism.; History of Philosophy.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; Intellectual Studies.; Literary History.

This book investigates intersections between the philosophy of nature and Hellenism in British and German Romanticism, focusing primarily on five central literary/philosophical figures: Friedrich Schelling, Friedrich Hölderlin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron. Near the end...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Romantic Hellenism, the Philosophy of Nature, and Subjective Anxiety
• 2. Intellectual Intuition: With Hölderlin, "Lost in the Wide Blue"
• 3. The Philosophy of Nature: Goethe, Schelling, and the World Soul
• 4. Aesthetic/Erotic Intuition: Hölderlin, Shelley, and the Islands of the Archipelago
• 5. Coda: with Byron on Acrocorinth.