The Anti-Romantic

Hegel''s critique of Early German Romanticism and its theory of irony resonates to the core of his own philosophy in the same way that Plato''s polemics with the Sophists have repercussions that go to the centre of his thought. The Anti-Romantic examines Hegel''s critique of Fr. Schlegel, Novalis and Schleiermacher. Hegel rarely mentions these thinkers by name and the texts dealing with them often...