Acknowledgements 1. Friedrich Schlegel Intermezzo 1: Words and the Things 2. Novalis Intermezzo 2: Irony and Barbarity 3. Schleiermacher Conclusion Coda 1: Galvanism and Excitability in Friedrich Schlegel’s Theory of the Fragment Coda 2: Reflections on Novalis’s Logological Fragments Notes Bibliography Index
Deals with Hegel's critique of Fr. Schlegel, Novalis and Schleiermacher, as representatives of ironic Romanticism.
Jeffrey Reid is a Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
[This book] is engaging, fresh, and insightful. It captures the
spirit of Hegel's idealism, remarkably, on two registers. It
contextualizes essential features that we might want to reclaim. It
also makes clear aspects of Hegel's corpus that we might need to
reject. The book opens paths of interpretation beyond itself, and
that is a core component of an excellent book
*Notre Dame Reviews*
Jeffrey Reid's work on Hegel's critical reaction to the Romantics
offers an approach to this complicated question that is novel in
several ways. He formulates it against the background of Hegel's
own quest for a form of 'scientific discourse' adequate to his
broad systematic aims, then treats Hegel's critique of Romanticism
in terms of the key Romantic concept of irony, viewed as an
alternative (though, for Hegel, inadequate) form of philosophical
expression. Not only does his approach shed new light on Hegel's
relation to his contemporaries, such as Fr. Schlegel, Novalis, and
Schleiermacher, but it also has important implications for how one
might respond to our own contemporary practitioners of 'postmodern
irony.' It is a book both rich in historical detail about an
important aspect of Hegel's thought that has often been neglected,
and a work of philosophy in its own right that engages issues
central to many contemporary discussions. Reid's book is required
reading for anyone interested in Hegel and German Idealism, the
Romantic movement, or the ironic mode of discourse as it is
currently practiced.
*Jere Surber, Department of Philosophy, The University of Denver,
Denver, USA.*
The critical role of Novalis, Schlegel, and Schleiermacher in the
development of Hegel's thought has largely been ignored in Hegel
scholarship. Jeffrey Reid’s The Anti-Romantic: Hegel Against Ironic
Romanticism corrects that neglect. By establishing the importance
of these figures for Hegel he makes a significant contribution to
both Hegel research and research on German idealism. This fine book
is also a welcome addition to the growing interest in the
philosophical dimensions of German Romanticism.
*Simon Lumsden, Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
University of New South Wales, Australia*
The Anti-Romantic: Hegel against Ironic Romanticism offers a
brilliant and highly original perspective on Hegel's idea of
philosophy as scientific discourse. Hegel's idea is presented
indirectly through his polemic against the Romantic forms of irony
defended by Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis and Schleiermacher. On the
basis of his broad historical research, Reid presents the
intriguing thesis that Hegel's critique of irony may be viewed as a
critique of post-modernity.
*Angelica Nuzzo, Professor of Philosophy, Graduate Center and
Brooklyn College, CUNY, USA.*
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