Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia: Das Allgemeine Brouillon

Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia: Das Allgemeine Brouillon (Suny Series, Intersections, Philosophy and Critical Theory)

The first English translation of Novalisâ€™s unfinished notes for a universal science, Das Allgemeine Brouillon.

Novalis is best known in history as the poet of early German Romanticism. However, this translation of Das Allgemeine Brouillon, or â€œUniversal Notebook,â€ 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 Novalisâ€™s largest theoretical work and certainly one of the most remarkable and audacious undertakings of the â€œGolden Ageâ€ 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 â€œRomantic Encyclopaediaâ€ or â€œScientific Bible.â€

Novalisâ€™s Romantic Encyclopaedia fully embodies the authorâ€™s own personal brand of philosophy, â€œMagical Idealism.â€ 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.

â€œâ€¦a welcome contribution to the growing literature in English on the philosophy of the early German romantics â€¦ This book deserves to be read not simply for its many poetic moments â€¦ but for the overall vision that gives the poetry its theoretical punch.â€ â€” Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

â€œWith its lucid introduction and notes, this essential volume enables the English-speaking reader to approach the Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia for the first time as a coherent text, part of a wider search in Germany for the new scientific method, a plan only later realized in modern physics.â€ â€” The Times Literary Supplement

â€œâ€¦expertly translated, edited, and introduced by David W. Wood ... There seems to be no topic, from the mysteries of the skin to the properties of minerals, which Novalisâ€™s encyclopedic ambition failed to confront.â€ â€” The New York Sun

â€œWoodâ€™s translation will radically change our sense of the range and shape of â€˜philosophyâ€™ in German Idealism and Romanticism, and will make a major contribution to our understanding of the stakes and divisions in the encyclopaedic project from the Enlightenment to the present.â€ â€” Tilottama Rajan, author of Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard

â€œWoodâ€™s excellent translation of a difficult text is of the highest quality and will be of great service to the field.â€ â€” Elizabeth MillÃ¡n-Zaibert, translator of Manfred Frankâ€™s The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism
Country USA
Brand State University of New York Press
Manufacturer State University of New York Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780791469743
ReleaseDate 2011-07-02

Country	USA
Brand	State University of New York Press
Manufacturer	State University of New York Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780791469743
ReleaseDate	2011-07-02

Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia: Das Allgemeine Brouillon (Suny Series, Intersections, Philosophy and Critical Theory)

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