Kant and the romantic ontology
In the first part of the paper, the author displays the specificities of the romantic concept of subjectivity. Based on the assumption that the Man is but a minute part of what he might be, the romantics emphasize on the imperative of infinite subjectivity. Giving up on the division of phil...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Filozofija i Društvo |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2015/0353-57381501047P.pdf |
| Summary: | In the first part of the paper, the author displays the specificities of the
romantic concept of subjectivity. Based on the assumption that the Man is but
a minute part of what he might be, the romantics emphasize on the imperative
of infinite subjectivity. Giving up on the division of philosophical
disciplines, the romantics request a unity of spirit in history. The
relationship between Kant and romanticism is mostly deliberated under the
auspices of the terms of anarchy and the nomadic spirit, which are pointed
out by Kant in the beginning of the foreword to the first edition of the
Critique of Pure Reason as the symptoms of the crisis of metaphysics. What
Kant sees as a crisis, the romantics embrace as constitutive moments of
subjectivity which aspire to soften the modern rifts by breaking up with all
substance. Trying to develop a sketch of the ontology of existence, Friedrich
Schlegel evokes Plato’s term ontos on, but ties it with the process of
establishing the individual ideal, as opposed to the former link with the
objective being. The author concludes that the ontology of existence with
romantics is at the same time the metaphysics of subjectivity which cares
mostly about originality, selfness and authenticity, about the integration of
Kant’s term of dynamically sublime in the midst of the philosophical speech
about the true being. |
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| ISSN: | 0353-5738 2334-8577 |