Notes for a Romantic Encyclopaedia: Das Allgemeine Brouillon (Suny Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory)
Contributors: David W. Wood (Editor)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: January 4, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780791469736
Subjects: History: theory & methods; History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Philosophy; Early works to 1800; Germany; Knowledge, Theory of; Romanticism; Science
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.""--BOOK JACKET.