Concepts of Self in German Romantic and Idealistic Philosophy

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Since Fichte’s philosophy the concept of Self became central in the philosophy of German Romantism and

Idealism and was further developed by philosophers like Novalis, Schelling, F. Schlegel, and Hegel, but also critically refuted by writers like Jacobi and Hölderlin. In the very core of this discussion lays both a peculiar reception of Spinoza’s philosophy and Kant’s two versions of his „Deduction of the pure rational concepts“ in his

Critique of Pure Reason. The lecture will demonstrate and elucidate the concrete conceptions of the Self both in a systematic and historical way.