Philosophico-historical thought of novalis and friedrich schlegel

Abstract

The way one approaches the early German Romanticists' fragments on Geschichte and Historie is a crucial factor in the reception of Romanticism as the relatively definable spiritual movement. The author approaches the romantic fragmentariness through works of Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel, and on the path of the thesis of the immanence of the unique notion of time and history in romanticists' fragment, he examines the nature of Romanticists' poetical and discursive perceptions of the episodes from the human past, of the characteristics of the modern age and of the purposes toward which human future strives. Romanticized time and history thereby could not be reduced to the linearly understood time and history. Romanticists' dialogue with transcendental philosophical heritage is here sought to be interpreted in the light of Romanticists' taking on the difficult task of the historization of transcendental idealism, whereby the essential limitations of Romanticists' fragmentation of human history become apparent.