Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia: Das Allgemeine BrouillonState University of New York Press, 1 feb. 2012 - 320 pagini Novalis is best known in history as the poet of early German Romanticism. However, this translation of Das Allgemeine Brouillon, or "Universal Notebook," finally introduces him to the English-speaking world as an extraordinarily gifted philosopher in his own right and shatters the myth of him as a mere daydreaming and irrational poet. Composed of more than 1,100 notebook entries, this is easily Novalis's largest theoretical work and certainly one of the most remarkable and audacious undertakings of the "Golden Age" of German philosophy. In it, Novalis reflects on numerous aspects of human culture, including philosophy, poetry, the natural sciences, the fine arts, mathematics, mineralogy, history, and religion, and brings them all together into what he calls a "Romantic Encyclopaedia" or "Scientific Bible." Novalis's Romantic Encyclopaedia fully embodies the author's own personal brand of philosophy, "Magical Idealism." With meditations on mankind and nature, the possible future development of our faculties of reason, imagination, and the senses, and the unification of the different sciences, these notes contain a veritable treasure trove of richly poetic and philosophic thoughts. |
Cuprins
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Extracts from the Freiberg Natural Scientific Studies179899 | 191 |
Notes to Introduction | 223 |
Notes to Text by Novalis | 231 |
Notes to Appendix | 265 |
Select Bibliography | 269 |
Index | 275 |
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Pagina 50 - En effet, n'y ayant aucun rapport entre chaque sensation et l'objet qui l'occasionne , ou du moins auquel nous la rapportons, il ne paraît pas qu'on puisse trouver, par le raisonnement, de passage possible de l'un...
Pagina 50 - ... ou science des nombres. Elle n'est autre chose que l'art de trouver d'une manière abrégée l'expression d'un rapport unique qui résulte de la comparaison de plusieurs autres.
Pagina 249 - ... the natural state of men, before they entered into society, was a mere war, and that not simply, but a war of all men against all men.
Pagina 227 - Thus all philosophizing must end at an absolute ground. If such a ground were not given, if this concept contained an impossibility, then the drive to philosophize would be an infinite activity. Thus it would be without end, because there would be an eternal need for an absolute ground, which could only be satisfied to a relative degree, and therefore would never cease.
Pagina 132 - The division of Philosopher and Poet is only apparent, and to the disadvantage of both. It is a sign of disease, and of a sickly constitution.
Pagina 59 - Metaphysics and astronomy are one science. The sun is to astronomy what God is to metaphysics; freedom and immortality will one day become the basis of spiritual physics, even as the sun, light and temperature are the basis of material physics." 39 Just as science becomes a part of religion, religion itself becomes "experimental.
Pagina xvi - ... world must be romanticized. If we do this, we shall discover in. it the meaning it had from )the beginning. The lower self becomes, through this process, identified with its higher self.
Pagina 106 - I can only say — for me there is now no such entity — other than a fictitious one. All illusion is as essential to the truth as the body is to the soul. Error is the necessary instrument of truth. With error I make truth. Complete use of error — complete possession of truth. All synthesis — all progression — or transition begins with illusion. I see outside of me that which is in me — I believe that what I am doing has happened, and so on. Error of time and space. Belief...
Pagina xvi - The world must be romanticized. In this way one rediscovers the original meaning. Romanticizing is nothing but a qualitative raising to a higher power [Potenzirung]. The lower self becomes identified with a better self. Just as we ourselves are such a qualitative exponential series. This operation is still quite unknown. Insofar as I give the commonplace a higher meaning, the ordinary a mysterious countenance, the known the dignity of the unknown, the finite an appearance of infinity, I romanticize...