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This volume, first published in 2001, argues that Romantic thought remains central to both artistic work and philosophical understanding.
List of contents
1. Introduction: the persistence of Romanticism; Part I. Kant and Post-Kantian Romanticism: 2. Kant, Hölderlin, and the experience of longing; 3. Kant and the value of absolute music; 4. How is the Kantian moral criticism of literature possible?; 5. Hölderlin's ethical thinking: 'the processes of the actual' in 'Heidelberg'; 6. Internal transcendentalism: Wordsworth and 'a new condition of philosophy'; Part II. Twentieth Century Philosophical Romanticisms: Wittgenstein, Cavell and the arts: 7. Hypotheses, criterial claims, and perspicuous representations: Wittgenstein's 'remarks on Frazer's The Golden Bough'; 8. How can tragedy matter for us?; 9. Althusser and ideological criticism of the arts; 10. 'A continuing task': Cavell and the truth of skepticism; 11. Plights of embodied soul: dramas of sin and salvation in Augustine and Updike; 12. Cavell and Hölderlin on human immigrancy.
Summary
Richard Eldridge argues that Romantic thought, interpreted as the pursuit of freedom in concrete contexts, remains central to both artistic work and philosophical understanding. The first serious philosophical defense of the ethical ideals of Romanticism, this volume, first published in 2001, will appeal particularly to all professionals and students in philosophy, literature and aesthetics.
