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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Friedrich Schlegel"”.
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Friedrich Schlegel and the Romantic Iconic Turn
… of a Romantic iconic turn in the aesthetics of Friedrich Schlegel and the painting of Caspar David Friedrich, my dissertation concentrates on a countermovement within the German Romantic tradition that sought to reconfigure the medium of painting at the moment of its institutionalization. By …
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Humor and the absolute: comedy and irony in the philosophical projects of G.W.F. Hegel and Friedrich Schlegel
… the philosophical projects of G.W.F. Hegel and Friedrich Schlegel. By examining the role of these two forms of humor in the context of the philosophical projects of these two thinkers, we gain not only a fruitful point of entry into each thinker’s philosophical project on its own terms, but also …
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Derrida and a Theory of Irony: Parabasis and Parataxis
… on the border of the (non)propositional: Plato, Friedrich Schlegel, Maurice Blanchot, Paul de Man, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. While focusing on the irony performed in the texts of Jacques Derrida, and using his engagements with these thinkers as a frame, this is not a theory of …
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Progress and the People in German Political Thought after Kant, 1781-1831
… imperatives of J. G. Fichte and J. B. Erhard, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Friedrich Hardenberg and Friedrich Schlegel, and G. W. F. Hegel. A project of intellectual history, the dissertation contextualizes these writings within the major events of the French revolution. This period of …
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Deciphering the Arabesque: Genre Mixture and Formal Digression in the Early Romantic Piano Concerto
This dissertation uses Friedrich Schlegel’s (1772–1829) literary concept of the arabesque to analyze genre mixture and formal digression in the early Romantic piano concerto. Drawing on both John Daverio’s adaptation of the arabesque for nineteenth-century music (1987;1993) and contemporary …
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The fate of universal history: on the task of philosophy of history between Kant and Benjamin
<p>This dissertation presents a materialist inheritance of the idealist theory of universal history that descends from Immanuel Kant through Early German Romanticism to Walter Benjamin. I show that the division between the idealist and the materialist interpretations of universal history results …