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 H?lderlin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron. Near the end of the eighteenth century, poets and thinkers reinvented Greece as a site of aesthetic and ontological wholeness, a move that corresponded with a refiguring of nature as a dynamically interconnected web in which each part is linked to the living whole. This vision of a vibrant materiality that allows us to become one with all that lives, along with a Romantic version of Hellenism that wished to reassemble the broken fragments of an imaginary Greece as both site and symbol of this all-unity, functioned as a two-pronged response to subjective anxiety that arose in the wake of Kant and Fichte. The result is a form of resistance to an idealism that appeared to leave little room for a world of beauty, love, and nature beyond the self.
1. Introduction: Romantic Hellenism, the Philosophy of Nature, and Subjective Anxiety
2. Intellectual Intuition: With H?lderlin, Lost in the Wide Blue
3. The Philosophy of Nature: Goethe, Schelling, and the World Soul
4. Aesthetic/Erotic Intuition: H?lderlin, Shelley, and the Islands of the Archipelago
5. Coda: with Byron on Acrocorinth
Romanticism, Hellenism, and the Philosophy of Nature nonetheless provides interesting analyses that help reassess these divergent paths. The possibility of such a reassessment is found in the structure of Daviss book, which is framed by an interesting idea that illuminates both post post-Kantian philosophy and logical empiricism. (Adam Tamas Tuboly, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, April 01, 2019)
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