Description
Despite his short life, Friedrich von Hardenberg (otherwise known as Novalis, 1772-1801) was one of the most original and polymathic figures of the early Romantic movement in Germany. Novalis: Philosophical, Literary, and Poetic Writings assembles, for the first time in English, translations of Novalis's published philosophical works, a large share of his surviving philosophical notes and fragments, his two unfinished novels (The Disciples at Saïs and Heinrich von Ofterdingen), and the Hymns to the Night. Unlike some of his contemporaries, Novalis not only theorized about art and its place in both the world of everyday human life and the universe of philosophical discourse but was himself a consummate artist in his own right. This unique edition of Novalis's writings in English allows readers to track issues and themes throughout his short but productive career as a budding philosopher in the post-Kantian tradition, as a philosophical novelist, and as a poet of the first rank. Readers interested in Novalis's views on philosophy, art, morality, politics, and religion, and how positions in each of these areas might be unified in single, overarching vision of reality, will find the present translation an essential guide.
Table of Contents
Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChronologyFurther ReadingNote on Texts and TranslationKey to Abbreviations and Editorial SymbolsA Brief Note on NamesPART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS, NOTES, AND FRAGMENTSI: Early ProseII: Philosophical Studies: 1797 Hemsterhuis Studies Kant StudiesIII: Assorted Remarks (Pollen): 1798IV: Faith and Love: 1798 Flowers Faith and Love Political AphorismsV: Unpublished Notes and Fragments: 1798 Logological Fragments [I] Logological Fragments [II] Poetry Poeticisms Assorted Fragments I Assorted Fragments II Fragments or Thought-Tasks Anecdotes Assorted Fragments III Teplitz Fragments Supplements to the Teplitz Fragments On Goethe Studies in the Visual ArtsVI: Dialogues and Monologue: 1798/9 Dialogues MonologueVII: Remarks on Friedrich Schlegel's Ideas: 1799VIII: Christianity or Europe: 1799IX: Fragments and Studies: 1799-1800Group I: 1-243 (June-December 1799)Group II: 244-497 (August 1799-February 1800)Group III: 498-574 (Late 1799-April 1800)Group IV: 575-695 (Summer and Spring 1800)Group V: 696-705PART TWO: THE NOVELSI: The Disciples at SaïsII: Heinrich von OfterdingenPART THREE: HYMNS TO THE NIGHTIndex
