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Editors’ Conclusions: The Past, Present, and Future of the Theory–German Idealism Relation
This concluding chapter to the handbook contains the editors’ reflections on the state of the relationship between theory and German Idealism by way of a narrative from the founding of “French theory” in the 1...
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Systems of Knowledge
This chapter considers Idealism’s encyclopedic knowledge-systems as a “general economy” that deconstructs any panlogical unification of philosophy, history, aesthetics, and the natural sciences, thus yielding ...
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The Poetry of Philology: Burckhardt’s Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy and Mary Shelley’s Valperga
In his 1860 book The Civilization [Kultur] of the Renaissance in Italy, Jacob Burckhardt argues that because Italy had no overarching system of government, it was free to create different political forms through ...
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“Something Not Yet Made Good”: Byron’s Cain, Godwin, and Mary Shelley’s Falkner
In 1837 Mary Shelley published her last novel, Falkner, laying to rest the wound of a Byronic Romanticism, in which Byron figures and is inextricably linked to her father, William Godwin.1 For Godwin had already ...
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(In) Digestible Material: Illness And Dialectic In Hegel’s The Philosophy Of Nature
Hegel is often seen as a thinker who assimilates, or more melodramatically, “digests” otherness, including the self ’s otherness to itself. His philosophies of art, religion, and other subjects exemplify this ...
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The Web of Human Things: Narrative and Identity in Alastor
Labyrinths, weavings and related figures are ubiquitous in Shelley’s texts, whether they are used to characterise language or other ways of gras** the world, such as thought, vision or emotion. Thus in Promethe...
