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Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia: Das Allgemeine Brouillon

By Novalis

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0791469735, 9780791469736, 9781429471282
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3461104 bytes)
Series
Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
Pages
290\322
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.”

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