Rethinking Romanticism with Spinoza: Encounter and Individuation in Novalis, Ritter, and Baader.
Reconstructing the theories of encounter and individuation among Novalis and his contemporaries affiliated with the Freiberg Mining Academy, this article reconsiders German Romanticism through a Spinozan materialist tradition. Countering the reception of Novalis as a poet and an idealist philosopher...
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Oct-Dec2019
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