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The Art of Recollection in Jena Romanticism
Memory, History, Fiction, and Fragmentation in Texts by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis
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The Art of Recollection in Jena Romanticism
Memory, History, Fiction, and Fragmentation in Texts by Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis
About this book
This exploration of Romantic depictions of memory as a faculty of body as well as of mind analyzes representations of remembrance in Jena Romantic texts. When these texts pose questions about memory's employment and depiction in art - about the aestheticization of recollection - they reveal serious doubt about the explanatory ability of the philosophical, psychological and aesthetic discourses against which Romantic, and modern, thought is constructed.
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Table of contents
- I. Introduction: Memory and its Objects in Early Romanticism
- II. Reconciliation and Fragmentation: The Early Romantic Memory Model
- 1. The Ambiguity of Memory and the Form of the Fragment
- 2. Memory For and Against History: Reciprocal Movements, Conflated Narratives
- 3. The Remembering Subject: Body, Mind, and Memory in the »Belated Present« of Fragmentary Representation
- a. Memory as Material and Transcendent
- b. The Importance of the Fragment for Representing Early Romantic Conceptions of Memory
- III. From Recollection to Depiction: An Incipient Crisis of Memory and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory
- 1. Constructions of Memory as Metaphorical and Material in the Mid- to Late Eighteenth Century
- 2. Aesthetics and History, and the Historiographic Function of Art: Schiller and Herder
- 3. Aesthetic Autonomy Versus Traumatic Memory: Lessing and Moritz
- Conclusion
- IV. Reconstructing Origins: Remembrance in German Idealism
- 1. The Problem of »Enacting« the Origin of Consciousness
- 2. Critical Philosophical and Idealist Definitions of Memory
- 3. Constructions of Memory in Fichte and Schelling
- Conclusion
- V. Novalis’s Conceptualizations of Memory and Its Role in Literary and Philosophical Production
- 1. »Gedächtnis« and »Erinnerung« as Components of Novalis’s Theories of Consciousness and Poesy
- 2. Literary Reconstructions of Individual and Collective Memory
- a. Heinrich von Ofterdingen
- b. Die Lehrlinge zu Sais
- c. Hymnen an die Nacht, Geistliche Lieder, Die Christenheit oder Europa
- 3. Memory as Indispensable and as Unstable: The Reciprocities of Consciousness and Their Implications for Memory in Novalis’ s Philosophical Fragments
- 4. Memory as Metaphor? Implications of Novalis’s Theory of Memory for a Philosophy of History
- Conclusion
- VI. Memory and History in the Fragments of Friedrich Schlegel
- 1. The Creation of a Philosophy of History as a Mnemonic Act
- 2. The Relevance of the Fragment Form for Schlegel’s Theory of Memory
- 3. Constructing Relationships Between Present and Past Self and Between Self and Other in the Philosophical Fragments and in Lucinde
- 4. Historiography as Fragmented Recollection Rather Than as Narrative Documentation
- Conclusion
- VII. Conclusion: Early Romanticism and Later Theories of Memory and Representation
- Bibliography
- Index of Names