Books by Giulia Valpione
Giulia Valpione (éd.) L'homme et la nature dans le romantisme allemand Mensch und Natur in der de... more Giulia Valpione (éd.) L'homme et la nature dans le romantisme allemand Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Romantik
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Zürich, Lit Verlag 2021.
Selon le romantisme allemand, l'être humain entre de plein droit parmi les processus naturels, ma... more Selon le romantisme allemand, l'être humain entre de plein droit parmi les processus naturels, mais en même temps, les particularités de l'humain demeurent. Le romantisme allemand offre une alternative à l'opposition homme / nature, de même qu'il prend ses distances à l'égard de l'idée selon laquelle les sciences humaines pourraient reléguer l'homme au rang de simple phénomène naturel. Mais comment se décline concrètement une telle position dans les différents domaines du savoir ? Telle est la question à laquelle cet ouvrage cherche à répondre.
Der deutschen Romantik zufolge ist der Mensch ein Teil der Natur, zugleich aber bleiben die Besonderheiten des Menschen bestehen. Die deutsche Romantik bietet eine Alternative zum Gegensatz Mensch - Natur, ebenso distanziert sie sich von der Vorstellung, die Geisteswissenschaften könnten den Menschen als bloßes Naturphänomen behandeln. Wie aber konkretisiert sich eine solche Position in den verschiedenen Wissensbereichen? Dies ist die Frage, die das vorliegende Buch zu beantworten versucht.
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Human Affairs. De Gruyter, 2023
Full draft available here: https://hal.science/hal-04547542/document.
This article focuses on N... more Full draft available here: https://hal.science/hal-04547542/document.
This article focuses on Novalis' understanding of the "I-nature" relationship demonstrating that he anticipates some aspects developed by later environmental and ecological philosophies. After an introductory part on Novalis' criticism against Fichte's conception of the Self, the article investigates the crucial role played by Spinoza for the reassessment of natural sciences (physiology in particular) in Novalis' philosophy and, as a consequence, for the conception of a "metaphysics of Having". This particular metaphysics implies that subjects and objects interpenetrate each other, and that this relationship precedes their respective identities. In the last part, the article sketches a parallel with the current philosophical debate on ecology.
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British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Routledge, 2023
This article examines the role played by 'feeling' (Gefühl) and 'love' within the philosophy of... more This article examines the role played by 'feeling' (Gefühl) and 'love' within the philosophy of German Romanticism. After an introduction (I) to the actual debate on German Romanticism, paragraph II sketches an analysis of the concept of Gefühl at the end of the eighteenth century and highlights the differences with its actual meaning. The successive three sections are dedicated to three pivotal figures of German Romanticism: F. Schlegel (III), Novalis (IV), and Baader (V). Similarities and differences between these authors will be emphasized. It will be demonstrated that they deny the reason˗feeling opposition, and that 'feeling' and 'love' are at the heart of their ontology, epistemology, and conception of subjectivity, conditioning the Romantic human-nature relationship and Romantic political philosophy. In the concluding remarks (VI), this paper explains how German Romanticism can still help to better understand the role of feelings in politics.
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Hegel Bulletin. Cambridge University Press, 2022
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«Symphilosophie. International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism», 2/2020, p. 131-156.
This article focuses on Bettina Brentano-von Arnim's political philosophy and argues against the ... more This article focuses on Bettina Brentano-von Arnim's political philosophy and argues against the traditional view that the feminine is extraneous to the political sphere. The introduction begins with some methodological reflections on the status of the feminist history of philosophy. Then the article provides a summary of the role that women had to play according to the male philosophers of Frühromantik. In the third part, the author focuses on a number of concepts underpinning von Arnim's political philosophy-'law' and 'equality' in particular. It attempts to demonstrate the originality of her political philosophy and highlight its link with the modern philosophical-political tradition. The article concludes by examining the relationship between self-government and the government of others as outlined by the philosopher.
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Conceptos Historicos, 6, 9, 2020, p. 56-84., 2020
In this article I focus on the concept of habit in Kant's philosophy. First of all, I concentrate... more In this article I focus on the concept of habit in Kant's philosophy. First of all, I concentrate on the criticisms he delineates against 'Gewohnheit' in his epistemological and moral philosophy. In particular, habit is seen as absence of moral freedom. This conclusion is pretty different from Kant's position expressed in his Anthropology From the Pragmatic Point of View and in the last part of the Conflict of the Faculties. After a deep insight on the different terms referred to the conceptual field of habit, I focus on the relation between 'Gewohnheit' and desire: in fact, Kant recognized that habit is not the mere repetition of an act, but more precisely it is the desire of repetition. That is why it is not strictly bonded to the deterministic world and it does not refer to machines: only the living beings may have habits. This way, it is possible to understand its role within the theme of health: in the reflections on dietetics, habit is particularly useful. The last part of the article is devoted to the new perspective on Kantian political philosophy opened by this positive view on this concept.
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"Scienza & Politica", vol. XXX, no. 58, 2018, p. 171-188., 2018
In questo saggio l’autrice approfondisce le riflessioni di Fr. Schlegel, considerato il primo fil... more In questo saggio l’autrice approfondisce le riflessioni di Fr. Schlegel, considerato il primo filosofo del Romanticismo Tedesco, sul concetto di storia. Le opere trattate vanno dal 1798 al 1805 e comprendono i suoi saggi, lezioni, appunti personali e frammenti. Negli anni considerati è centrale la considerazione della pluralità delle storie (Geschichten) e delle genealogie di contro alla storia (Geschichte) come singolare collettivo, ideale regolativo della narrazione e della prassi. Nel saggio svolgono un ruolo portante le analisi di Koselleck su Schlegel, da cui il presente saggio tende a distanziarsi.
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"Filosofia Politica", vol. XXXII, 3/2018, p. 511-522, 2018
The category of «Political Romanticism» identifies an incredibly large area of research, whose bo... more The category of «Political Romanticism» identifies an incredibly large area of research, whose boundaries are still not clear today. Discussing the recent Italian translation of a book by Michael Löwy e Robert Sayre (Rivolta e malinconia, 2017), this article argues that this notion (despite its uncertainty) is still relevant not only to understand the emergence of the fascist ideology, but also to open new perspectives in the history of subjectivity and in politics of literature.
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"Ipseitas", vol. 3, n. 2, 2017, p. 177-196.
In this article, after having described the role and functioning of general rules and of customs ... more In this article, after having described the role and functioning of general rules and of customs by Hume, I will show that the centrality of these in his political reflection leads to a denial of the identification of man as the subject, intending with this concept the union of the conceptual pair subjectum (support of personal peculiarity) and subditus. Hume doubts the presence of an element that is able to impose itself on man, subduing him to its own will; the man himself, if he tries to impose a norm on himself, attains only useless sufferings.
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Journal Issues by Giulia Valpione
(ed.) Hegel Bulletin – Special Issue. Cambridge University Press, 2022
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SYMPHILOSOPHIE: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism
This second issue of SYMPHILOSOPHIE is now published. It is devoted to the women writers of philo... more This second issue of SYMPHILOSOPHIE is now published. It is devoted to the women writers of philosophical romanticism. The journal is online and completely open access. This issue also contains an 80 page translation anthology of texts by Rahel Varnhagen, Sophie Mereau, Caroline Michaelis-Schlegel, Dorothea Veit-Schlegel, Karoline von Günderrode and Bettina Brentano-von Arnim. In addition, there are miscellaneous articles, review essays, book reviews, and a notices section with the latest publications, conferences and calls for papers for events relating to German romantic philosophy.
The full issue is available at: https://symphilosophie.com/1938-2/
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Editorial (EN, FR, IT, DE)
Laure Cahen-Maurel and Giulia Valpione
The Women Writers of Philosophical Romanticism
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Jane Kneller:
Symphilosophie, le genre et la socialité dans le premier romantisme allemand [Symphilosophy: Gender and Sociability in Early German Romanticism]
Anna C. Ezekiel:
Narrative and Fragment: The Social Self in Karoline von Günderrode
Catalina Elena Dobre:
Rahel Levin Varnhagen’s Philosophical Reflections on Moral Character, Bildung and Sociability
Bryan Norton:
Geschlecht, Sinnfeld, Kontingenz: zur Ontologie in Dorothea Schlegels Florentin [Gender, Sense Field, Contingency: On Ontology in Dorothea Schlegel’s Florentin]
Giulia Valpione:
Expanding the Canon: The Political Philosophy of Bettina von Arnim
TRANSLATIONS
Introduction
Laure Cahen-Maurel and Giulia Valpione
Rahel Varnhagen (1771-1833)
Choix de lettres et de fragments de journal intime, 1794-1814 (FR)
Laure Cahen-Maurel
Sophie Mereau (1770-1806)
“Ein paar Worte über das Folgende”, Das Blüthenalter der Empfindung, 1794 (ITA, ENG, FR)
Translated by Giulia Valpione (ITA), David W. Wood (ENG), and Laure Cahen-Maurel (FR)
Das Blüthenalter der Empfindung / La Floraison des sentiments (1794), extrait
Translated by Laure Cahen-Maurel (FR)
Caroline Michaelis-Schlegel (1763-1809)
Die Gemälde / The Paintings (1799), Excerpt (ENG)
Translated by David W. Wood
Dorothea Veit-Schlegel (1764-1839)
Moralische Erzählungen von Ramdohr / Ramdohr’s Moral Tales, 1800 (ENG)
Translated by David W. Wood
Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806)
Eine persische Erzählung / A Persian Tale, 1806 (ENG)
Translated by Anna C. Ezekiel
Idee der Erde / Idea della Terra, 1805 (ITA)
Translated by Giulia Valpione
Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859)
Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde / Epistolario di Goethe con una fanciulla (1835), estratto
Translated by Giulia Valpione
MISCELLANEOUS
Karl Ameriks:
The Very Idea of Innovation: From Descartes to Post-Kantianism
Stefan Schick:
Dialetheism as Romanticism and the Hegelian Critique of True Contradictions
Manfred Frank:
L’« ironie romantique » comme procédé musical. L’exemple de Tieck, Brahms, Wagner et Weber – Partie II [“Romantic Irony” as Musical Process. The Examples of Tieck, Brahms, Wagner and Weber – Part II]
Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak:
Between Romanticism and Idealism: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, Philosophy as the Thought of Revelation – Part II
REVIEW ESSAYS
Giovanni Panno:
Come ordinare un sistema di asistematicità. Nota a: Novalis, Scritti filosofici, a cura di Fabrizio Desideri e Giampiero Moretti (2019) / How to Order a System of Systemlessness. Review essay of: Novalis, Scritti filosofici, a cura di Fabrizio Desideri e Giampiero Moretti (2019).
Laure Cahen-Maurel:
Nouvelles lectures philosophiques de l’imagination. À propos de The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism (2019)
BOOK REVIEWS
Manja Kisner, Jörg Noller (eds), The Concept of Will in Classical German Philosophy. Between Ethics, Politics, and Metaphysics (De Gruyter, 2020)
Reviewed by Daniel Elon (ENG)
Novalis, À la fin tout devient poésie, trad. O. Schefer (Editions Allia, 2020)
Reviewed by David W. Wood (ENG)
NOTICES
New publications, CFP and Conferences
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SYMPHILOSOPHIE: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism
The inaugural 2019 issue of "Symphilosophie: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism" ... more The inaugural 2019 issue of "Symphilosophie: International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism" is now published. The journal is completely open access, and the first issue is devoted to the intersection of philosophical romanticism and German Idealism. It contains articles, translations, book reviews and notices in English, French, Italian and German.
Table of Contents:
Editorial (Laure Cahen-Maurel & Giulia Valpione)
Research Articles
MANFRED FRANK. L'”ironie romantique” comme procédé musical. L’exemple de Tieck, Brahms, Wagner et Weber (Partie I) [“Romantic Irony” as Musical Process. The Examples of Tieck, Brahms, Wagner and Weber – Part I]
MILDRED GALLAND-SZYMKOWIAK. Between Romanticism and Idealism: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, Philosophy as the Thought of Revelation (Part I)
ALEXANDER J. B. HAMPTON. Romantic Religion. Dissolution and Transcendence in the Poetics of Hölderlin
CHRISTOPH HAFFTER. Grenzen der Reflexion: Pragmatismus, Idealismus und Frühromantik als Formen unendlicher Philosophie [The Limits of Reflection. Pragmatism, Idealism and Early German Romanticism as Forms of Infinite Philosophy]
RYLIE JOHNSON. From Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre to Novalis’ Poetic Historicity
LAURE CAHEN-MAUREL. Novalis’s Magical Idealism: A Threefold Philosophy of the Imagination, Love and Medicine
Translations
Twelve Letters From the Romantic Circle (1798-1799), Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Caroline Schlegel, August Wilhelm Schlegel (Translated from the German by David W. Wood)
Book Reviews
Romantik und Recht. Recht und Sprache, Rechtsfälle und Gerechtigkeit, a cura di Antje Arnold e Walter Pape, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2018 (Recensione di Giulia Valpione)
Brill’s Companion to German Romantic Philosophy, a cura di Elizabeth Millán Brusslan e Judith Norman, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2019 (Recensione di Giulia Valpione)
Idealismus und Romantik in Jena. Figuren und Konzepte zwischen 1794 und 1807, ed. by Michael Forster, Johannes Korngiebel and Klaus Vieweg, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2018 (Reviewed by David W. Wood)
Notices
New Publications, Conferences, and Calls for Papers
The full issue is available at: https://symphilosophie.com/2019-1-eng/
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Chapters by Giulia Valpione
The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition, Oxford University Press, 2024
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Joseph J. Tinguely, Philosophy and Money: A Historical and Interdisciplinary Consideration of Economies and Worldviews, Palgrave, 2024
The thesis presented in this chapter is that the presence of the question on money within a philo... more The thesis presented in this chapter is that the presence of the question on money within a philosophy can change the way philosophy itself is conceived. I take in consideration the women philosophers of German Romanticism to show how the role of money within their philosophy changed, transforming also the conception of philosophy previously formulated by the male philosophers of German Romanticism, briefly discussed after the introductory remarks. After this, I firstly concentrate on Caroline Schlegel-Schelling, who put forth the materiality of the conditions that allow a subject to philosophize. For her, money is a necessary instrument for women to build a space and time where they can dedicate to philosophical studies. The protagonist of the last part of the article is Bettina von Arnim. In her political-philosophical works, she explained the crucial role played by money in the capitalist world: money was the condition of possibility of freedom, morality, and philosophy itself. She showed not only that a wealthy economic status is a condition for being able to devote time to philosophy, but also that philosophy has the task of critically questioning the injustices that pervade those conditions, thus transforming philosophy into a social critique.
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in Giulia Valpione (éd.), "L'homme et la nature dans le romantisme allemand. Politique, critique et esthétique / Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Romantik. Politik, Kritik und Ästhetik", Lit Verlag, 2021, p. 147-162.
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in M. N. Forster, L. Steiner (eds.), Romanticism, Philosophy, and Literature, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, p. 193-215.
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La actualidad del primer romanticismo alemán reúne ensayos de investigadores especializados en el... more La actualidad del primer romanticismo alemán reúne ensayos de investigadores especializados en el campo de los estudios sobre filosofía alemana a los fines de evidenciar la fuerza que el pensamiento romántico tiene para el presente.
Los ensayos destacan los aspectos políticos, filosóficos, estéticos y literarios de un movimiento de pensamiento que aún requiere ser indagado en profundidad. Frente al equívoco prejuicio que ha pesado sobre el primer romanticismo en la historia de la literatura y la filosofía, los ensayos pretenden evidenciar las características más sobresalientes de autores como Novalis, Schleiermacher, los hermanos Schlegel, entre otros.
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in Garnica N. (compilador), La actualidad der primer romanticismo alemán, Buenos Aires, Teseo Press., 2019
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in Denat C., Fillon A., Wotling P. (éd.), Logiques du discours philosophique, EPURE, Reims, 2019
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Der deutschen Romantik zufolge ist der Mensch ein Teil der Natur, zugleich aber bleiben die Besonderheiten des Menschen bestehen. Die deutsche Romantik bietet eine Alternative zum Gegensatz Mensch - Natur, ebenso distanziert sie sich von der Vorstellung, die Geisteswissenschaften könnten den Menschen als bloßes Naturphänomen behandeln. Wie aber konkretisiert sich eine solche Position in den verschiedenen Wissensbereichen? Dies ist die Frage, die das vorliegende Buch zu beantworten versucht.
Articles by Giulia Valpione
This article focuses on Novalis' understanding of the "I-nature" relationship demonstrating that he anticipates some aspects developed by later environmental and ecological philosophies. After an introductory part on Novalis' criticism against Fichte's conception of the Self, the article investigates the crucial role played by Spinoza for the reassessment of natural sciences (physiology in particular) in Novalis' philosophy and, as a consequence, for the conception of a "metaphysics of Having". This particular metaphysics implies that subjects and objects interpenetrate each other, and that this relationship precedes their respective identities. In the last part, the article sketches a parallel with the current philosophical debate on ecology.
Fully available here: https://symphilosophie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/4_Symphilosophie-2_5-Valpione.pdf
Journal Issues by Giulia Valpione
The full issue is available at: https://symphilosophie.com/1938-2/
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Editorial (EN, FR, IT, DE)
Laure Cahen-Maurel and Giulia Valpione
The Women Writers of Philosophical Romanticism
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Jane Kneller:
Symphilosophie, le genre et la socialité dans le premier romantisme allemand [Symphilosophy: Gender and Sociability in Early German Romanticism]
Anna C. Ezekiel:
Narrative and Fragment: The Social Self in Karoline von Günderrode
Catalina Elena Dobre:
Rahel Levin Varnhagen’s Philosophical Reflections on Moral Character, Bildung and Sociability
Bryan Norton:
Geschlecht, Sinnfeld, Kontingenz: zur Ontologie in Dorothea Schlegels Florentin [Gender, Sense Field, Contingency: On Ontology in Dorothea Schlegel’s Florentin]
Giulia Valpione:
Expanding the Canon: The Political Philosophy of Bettina von Arnim
TRANSLATIONS
Introduction
Laure Cahen-Maurel and Giulia Valpione
Rahel Varnhagen (1771-1833)
Choix de lettres et de fragments de journal intime, 1794-1814 (FR)
Laure Cahen-Maurel
Sophie Mereau (1770-1806)
“Ein paar Worte über das Folgende”, Das Blüthenalter der Empfindung, 1794 (ITA, ENG, FR)
Translated by Giulia Valpione (ITA), David W. Wood (ENG), and Laure Cahen-Maurel (FR)
Das Blüthenalter der Empfindung / La Floraison des sentiments (1794), extrait
Translated by Laure Cahen-Maurel (FR)
Caroline Michaelis-Schlegel (1763-1809)
Die Gemälde / The Paintings (1799), Excerpt (ENG)
Translated by David W. Wood
Dorothea Veit-Schlegel (1764-1839)
Moralische Erzählungen von Ramdohr / Ramdohr’s Moral Tales, 1800 (ENG)
Translated by David W. Wood
Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806)
Eine persische Erzählung / A Persian Tale, 1806 (ENG)
Translated by Anna C. Ezekiel
Idee der Erde / Idea della Terra, 1805 (ITA)
Translated by Giulia Valpione
Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859)
Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde / Epistolario di Goethe con una fanciulla (1835), estratto
Translated by Giulia Valpione
MISCELLANEOUS
Karl Ameriks:
The Very Idea of Innovation: From Descartes to Post-Kantianism
Stefan Schick:
Dialetheism as Romanticism and the Hegelian Critique of True Contradictions
Manfred Frank:
L’« ironie romantique » comme procédé musical. L’exemple de Tieck, Brahms, Wagner et Weber – Partie II [“Romantic Irony” as Musical Process. The Examples of Tieck, Brahms, Wagner and Weber – Part II]
Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak:
Between Romanticism and Idealism: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, Philosophy as the Thought of Revelation – Part II
REVIEW ESSAYS
Giovanni Panno:
Come ordinare un sistema di asistematicità. Nota a: Novalis, Scritti filosofici, a cura di Fabrizio Desideri e Giampiero Moretti (2019) / How to Order a System of Systemlessness. Review essay of: Novalis, Scritti filosofici, a cura di Fabrizio Desideri e Giampiero Moretti (2019).
Laure Cahen-Maurel:
Nouvelles lectures philosophiques de l’imagination. À propos de The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism (2019)
BOOK REVIEWS
Manja Kisner, Jörg Noller (eds), The Concept of Will in Classical German Philosophy. Between Ethics, Politics, and Metaphysics (De Gruyter, 2020)
Reviewed by Daniel Elon (ENG)
Novalis, À la fin tout devient poésie, trad. O. Schefer (Editions Allia, 2020)
Reviewed by David W. Wood (ENG)
NOTICES
New publications, CFP and Conferences
Table of Contents:
Editorial (Laure Cahen-Maurel & Giulia Valpione)
Research Articles
MANFRED FRANK. L'”ironie romantique” comme procédé musical. L’exemple de Tieck, Brahms, Wagner et Weber (Partie I) [“Romantic Irony” as Musical Process. The Examples of Tieck, Brahms, Wagner and Weber – Part I]
MILDRED GALLAND-SZYMKOWIAK. Between Romanticism and Idealism: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, Philosophy as the Thought of Revelation (Part I)
ALEXANDER J. B. HAMPTON. Romantic Religion. Dissolution and Transcendence in the Poetics of Hölderlin
CHRISTOPH HAFFTER. Grenzen der Reflexion: Pragmatismus, Idealismus und Frühromantik als Formen unendlicher Philosophie [The Limits of Reflection. Pragmatism, Idealism and Early German Romanticism as Forms of Infinite Philosophy]
RYLIE JOHNSON. From Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre to Novalis’ Poetic Historicity
LAURE CAHEN-MAUREL. Novalis’s Magical Idealism: A Threefold Philosophy of the Imagination, Love and Medicine
Translations
Twelve Letters From the Romantic Circle (1798-1799), Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Caroline Schlegel, August Wilhelm Schlegel (Translated from the German by David W. Wood)
Book Reviews
Romantik und Recht. Recht und Sprache, Rechtsfälle und Gerechtigkeit, a cura di Antje Arnold e Walter Pape, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2018 (Recensione di Giulia Valpione)
Brill’s Companion to German Romantic Philosophy, a cura di Elizabeth Millán Brusslan e Judith Norman, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2019 (Recensione di Giulia Valpione)
Idealismus und Romantik in Jena. Figuren und Konzepte zwischen 1794 und 1807, ed. by Michael Forster, Johannes Korngiebel and Klaus Vieweg, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2018 (Reviewed by David W. Wood)
Notices
New Publications, Conferences, and Calls for Papers
The full issue is available at: https://symphilosophie.com/2019-1-eng/
Chapters by Giulia Valpione
Los ensayos destacan los aspectos políticos, filosóficos, estéticos y literarios de un movimiento de pensamiento que aún requiere ser indagado en profundidad. Frente al equívoco prejuicio que ha pesado sobre el primer romanticismo en la historia de la literatura y la filosofía, los ensayos pretenden evidenciar las características más sobresalientes de autores como Novalis, Schleiermacher, los hermanos Schlegel, entre otros.
Der deutschen Romantik zufolge ist der Mensch ein Teil der Natur, zugleich aber bleiben die Besonderheiten des Menschen bestehen. Die deutsche Romantik bietet eine Alternative zum Gegensatz Mensch - Natur, ebenso distanziert sie sich von der Vorstellung, die Geisteswissenschaften könnten den Menschen als bloßes Naturphänomen behandeln. Wie aber konkretisiert sich eine solche Position in den verschiedenen Wissensbereichen? Dies ist die Frage, die das vorliegende Buch zu beantworten versucht.
This article focuses on Novalis' understanding of the "I-nature" relationship demonstrating that he anticipates some aspects developed by later environmental and ecological philosophies. After an introductory part on Novalis' criticism against Fichte's conception of the Self, the article investigates the crucial role played by Spinoza for the reassessment of natural sciences (physiology in particular) in Novalis' philosophy and, as a consequence, for the conception of a "metaphysics of Having". This particular metaphysics implies that subjects and objects interpenetrate each other, and that this relationship precedes their respective identities. In the last part, the article sketches a parallel with the current philosophical debate on ecology.
Fully available here: https://symphilosophie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/4_Symphilosophie-2_5-Valpione.pdf
The full issue is available at: https://symphilosophie.com/1938-2/
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Editorial (EN, FR, IT, DE)
Laure Cahen-Maurel and Giulia Valpione
The Women Writers of Philosophical Romanticism
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Jane Kneller:
Symphilosophie, le genre et la socialité dans le premier romantisme allemand [Symphilosophy: Gender and Sociability in Early German Romanticism]
Anna C. Ezekiel:
Narrative and Fragment: The Social Self in Karoline von Günderrode
Catalina Elena Dobre:
Rahel Levin Varnhagen’s Philosophical Reflections on Moral Character, Bildung and Sociability
Bryan Norton:
Geschlecht, Sinnfeld, Kontingenz: zur Ontologie in Dorothea Schlegels Florentin [Gender, Sense Field, Contingency: On Ontology in Dorothea Schlegel’s Florentin]
Giulia Valpione:
Expanding the Canon: The Political Philosophy of Bettina von Arnim
TRANSLATIONS
Introduction
Laure Cahen-Maurel and Giulia Valpione
Rahel Varnhagen (1771-1833)
Choix de lettres et de fragments de journal intime, 1794-1814 (FR)
Laure Cahen-Maurel
Sophie Mereau (1770-1806)
“Ein paar Worte über das Folgende”, Das Blüthenalter der Empfindung, 1794 (ITA, ENG, FR)
Translated by Giulia Valpione (ITA), David W. Wood (ENG), and Laure Cahen-Maurel (FR)
Das Blüthenalter der Empfindung / La Floraison des sentiments (1794), extrait
Translated by Laure Cahen-Maurel (FR)
Caroline Michaelis-Schlegel (1763-1809)
Die Gemälde / The Paintings (1799), Excerpt (ENG)
Translated by David W. Wood
Dorothea Veit-Schlegel (1764-1839)
Moralische Erzählungen von Ramdohr / Ramdohr’s Moral Tales, 1800 (ENG)
Translated by David W. Wood
Karoline von Günderrode (1780-1806)
Eine persische Erzählung / A Persian Tale, 1806 (ENG)
Translated by Anna C. Ezekiel
Idee der Erde / Idea della Terra, 1805 (ITA)
Translated by Giulia Valpione
Bettina von Arnim (1785-1859)
Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde / Epistolario di Goethe con una fanciulla (1835), estratto
Translated by Giulia Valpione
MISCELLANEOUS
Karl Ameriks:
The Very Idea of Innovation: From Descartes to Post-Kantianism
Stefan Schick:
Dialetheism as Romanticism and the Hegelian Critique of True Contradictions
Manfred Frank:
L’« ironie romantique » comme procédé musical. L’exemple de Tieck, Brahms, Wagner et Weber – Partie II [“Romantic Irony” as Musical Process. The Examples of Tieck, Brahms, Wagner and Weber – Part II]
Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak:
Between Romanticism and Idealism: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, Philosophy as the Thought of Revelation – Part II
REVIEW ESSAYS
Giovanni Panno:
Come ordinare un sistema di asistematicità. Nota a: Novalis, Scritti filosofici, a cura di Fabrizio Desideri e Giampiero Moretti (2019) / How to Order a System of Systemlessness. Review essay of: Novalis, Scritti filosofici, a cura di Fabrizio Desideri e Giampiero Moretti (2019).
Laure Cahen-Maurel:
Nouvelles lectures philosophiques de l’imagination. À propos de The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism (2019)
BOOK REVIEWS
Manja Kisner, Jörg Noller (eds), The Concept of Will in Classical German Philosophy. Between Ethics, Politics, and Metaphysics (De Gruyter, 2020)
Reviewed by Daniel Elon (ENG)
Novalis, À la fin tout devient poésie, trad. O. Schefer (Editions Allia, 2020)
Reviewed by David W. Wood (ENG)
NOTICES
New publications, CFP and Conferences
Table of Contents:
Editorial (Laure Cahen-Maurel & Giulia Valpione)
Research Articles
MANFRED FRANK. L'”ironie romantique” comme procédé musical. L’exemple de Tieck, Brahms, Wagner et Weber (Partie I) [“Romantic Irony” as Musical Process. The Examples of Tieck, Brahms, Wagner and Weber – Part I]
MILDRED GALLAND-SZYMKOWIAK. Between Romanticism and Idealism: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, Philosophy as the Thought of Revelation (Part I)
ALEXANDER J. B. HAMPTON. Romantic Religion. Dissolution and Transcendence in the Poetics of Hölderlin
CHRISTOPH HAFFTER. Grenzen der Reflexion: Pragmatismus, Idealismus und Frühromantik als Formen unendlicher Philosophie [The Limits of Reflection. Pragmatism, Idealism and Early German Romanticism as Forms of Infinite Philosophy]
RYLIE JOHNSON. From Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre to Novalis’ Poetic Historicity
LAURE CAHEN-MAUREL. Novalis’s Magical Idealism: A Threefold Philosophy of the Imagination, Love and Medicine
Translations
Twelve Letters From the Romantic Circle (1798-1799), Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Caroline Schlegel, August Wilhelm Schlegel (Translated from the German by David W. Wood)
Book Reviews
Romantik und Recht. Recht und Sprache, Rechtsfälle und Gerechtigkeit, a cura di Antje Arnold e Walter Pape, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2018 (Recensione di Giulia Valpione)
Brill’s Companion to German Romantic Philosophy, a cura di Elizabeth Millán Brusslan e Judith Norman, Leiden/Boston, Brill, 2019 (Recensione di Giulia Valpione)
Idealismus und Romantik in Jena. Figuren und Konzepte zwischen 1794 und 1807, ed. by Michael Forster, Johannes Korngiebel and Klaus Vieweg, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2018 (Reviewed by David W. Wood)
Notices
New Publications, Conferences, and Calls for Papers
The full issue is available at: https://symphilosophie.com/2019-1-eng/
Los ensayos destacan los aspectos políticos, filosóficos, estéticos y literarios de un movimiento de pensamiento que aún requiere ser indagado en profundidad. Frente al equívoco prejuicio que ha pesado sobre el primer romanticismo en la historia de la literatura y la filosofía, los ensayos pretenden evidenciar las características más sobresalientes de autores como Novalis, Schleiermacher, los hermanos Schlegel, entre otros.
In this study, I reconstruct the systematic nature of Kant’s work Der Streit der Fakultäten, which has consequences for Kant’s representation of the university and for the relationship between politics and philosophy. Apart from the abovementioned text, I also refer to other Kantian works: Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Judgment, Lessons on Philosophical Encyclopaedia, Critique of Judgment, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, On the Old Saw and Perpetual Peace.
My essay begins with a description of the economic and social condition of the German University between eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that led to the end of the corporative statute of the University, which became a tool of political centralization. Kant divides the Inferior Faculty (of Philosophy) and Superior Faculties (of jurisprudence, theology and medicine). These last have the duty of educating functionaries, which must set the limits to the tendencies and instincts of the people that could lead to immorality, injustice and intemperance. Kant is aware that the government tries to subdue to its own authority all the abilities and inclinations of the people, subjugating them and preventing their emergence from immaturity to the age of majority. The government must, however, guarantee a space of autonomy and freedom in which the quest for truth can be pursued without
having as its purpose the production of governmental tools for subduing the people. In my study, I elucidate that both the necessity of autonomy in philosophical research and the conflict between the Inferior and Superior Faculties are strictly dependent on the relationship between theory and practice elaborated by Kant.
In this study, I focus on the centrality of the Kantian differentiation between Gelehrter and Geschäftsleute.
Freedom to express one’s own research and doubts must be guaranteed to the first, and they must only care about the prosperity of the sciences. That is, they enjoy the boundless liberty of those who make public use of reason, which must, however, be addressed to an educated community that deals with the sciences. By contrast, the Geschäftsleute are the graduates in the three Superior Faculties; they are the tools of the government. Their purpose consists in practising an influence on the people: therefore, they make private use of reason, i.e. they use it in a civic function. They cannot pursue the laws of reason and they cannot criticise the assignments to which they have been submitted: the truth must be sought only in the Inferior Faculty.
Despite the autonomy, even inside the Faculty of Philosophy, there is censorship: the censorship practised by metaphysics that is needed to prevent that the speculation undertakes wrong-headed research. Without this censorship, there cannot be true science, which otherwise would follow accidental purposes, its unity would
only be a technical one and it would be tied to the Academies of Sciences and no longer to Universities. To explain this section, I introduce a differentiation between subjective and objective historical and rational knowledge, alongside the theme of philosophy as archetype, as Schulbegriff and as Weltbegriff.
Later, I delineate the presence of conflicts among Faculties and I compare them to the conflict between theory and practice as described in Kant’s philosophy. The conflict between the Inferior and Superior Faculties, i.e. between theory and practice, could become ‘illegal’. It is illegal to bring those conflicts out of a discussion limited to the learned community and to express them in the civic community.
Of particular relevance is the conflict between the Faculty of Jurisprudence and that of Philosophy: because of this, it is possible to understand the difficult relationship between philosophy and politics in Kant. The laws needed to govern are taught in the Faculty of Jurisprudence; in that of Philosophy, the concepts of right and law are researched instead. Theory cannot pretend to a complete and sudden realization of these concepts in the phenomenal world; no more can practice sustain having reached the purity of these concepts.
The enthusiasm experienced by the German people for the French Revolution is a sign that reference to the concept of right has become essential in politics contemporary to Kant and that philosophy (the only discipline capable of understanding what the concept of ‘right’ implies) therefore is unavoidable. However,
if philosophy would pretend immediate consequences in politics of theory, philosophy would lose its freedom, which is provided to it by pure rationality. Certainly, it is good for the State that philosophy maintains the privilege of free research. The politician, if he is moral, will decides to listen to the critiques
addressed by the philosopher and to direct his decisions according to what is proposed by rational theory, accepting also the explanation of historical events through reflective judgments, which show the progressive realisation of rational, moral concepts in history. Such a politician should also seek, through prudence and
wisdom, a correct equilibrium between theory and practice that allows both a step toward the realization of rational theory and the absence of the violent and sudden revolutions provoked by the intention of forcing its application in the phenomenal world.
In this study, I focus on the originality of Salomon Maimon’s transcendental philosophy. Maimon proposes, following a skeptical procedure that, unmasking the presuppositions admitted by Kant allows the tracing of a new philosophical way beyond the Kantian dualism. In particular, Maimon doubts the existence of synthetic
judgments and proposes that Kant resolved the quaestio juris but not the quaestio rationis concerning the subsumption of intuitions to categories.
Through the introduction of an infinite intellect (that is, of an analytical unity of knowledge that excludes the necessity of posing the transcendental apperception “I think”) in his philosophy, Maimon succeeds in indicating that the bond between a determined subject and a specific predicate is not contingent, but tightly necessary.
For Maimon, knowledge does not proceed from the subsumption of intuitions to categories; it rather consists in the progressive determination of general concepts: for example, behind the judgment “the fire heats the stone,” there is no previous subsumption of a manifold (the intuition of fire and the intuition of a stone) to a
form (in this case, to the category of causality) but rather the progressive determination of the concept of cause–effect. Knowledge begins with a relationship, which is gradually determined not through the subsumption of a manifold, but through the discovery of the specifications and determinations (contained in
the infinite intellect) of the initially perceived relationship. The knowing subject does not have to confer an order on a chaotic multiplicity; knowledge has to do with relationships, laws, and dependences, i.e., it has to do with differentials of perception. However, because of our narrowness, the human intellect is unable to
overcome the realm of representation (Vorstellung in Maimon’s philosophy corresponds to the illusion that objects are external, in a transcendental sense, to the subject), and it will always be brought to believe that the objects of its knowledge exist independently from the relationship with other objects. Human and
defective knowledge does not succeed in overcoming the dichotomies subject–object, form–contained, and subsumption–given.
This skepticism about the possibility of synthetic judgments also has some consequences for the vision of the relationship between subject and object: for Maimon there is no assimilation of one to the other: the intellect does not impose its forms to things it perceive; on the contrary, it lets objects emerge according to their own rules. Further, for Maimon, knowledge does not result from the production (through functions present a priori in the subject) of bonds between single (and disconnected) perceptions. Rather, for him, knowledge is progress that proceeds through a continuous increase of relationships that reciprocally connect, producing a
system of functions whose numbers is always increasing.
In my study, I show that, as a consequence, some central concepts of Kantian philosophy radically change in Maimon’s thinking: Vorstellung, Darstellung, imagination (which for Maimon is principle of individualization), noumenon, and thing-in-itself. In particular, the noumenon is for Maimon an idea, and the
thing-in-itself represents the complete determination of a concept; therefore, neither of them constitutes a substratum external to thought, but they are the final goal that our defective knowledge is trying to achieve.
After having analyzed the meaning of those concepts in Maimon’s philosophy, I focus on the role and task of transcendental philosophy: for Maimon it does not investigate the rules and the limits of knowledge; rather it must track and describe operations carried out by infinite intellect of which subjective, imperfect thought is
only a reflection. Metaphysics does not deal with what is beyond experience, but with what is found at the limits of our possible knowledge.
The year 2022 is the 250th anniversary of the birth of the two major romantic thinkers Friedrich Schlegel and Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis), so contributions on their philosophies would be particularly welcome.
The submission deadline for this fourth issue is: 31 March 2022.
See attached document and our website for more details: https://symphilosophie.com/cfp-2022-eng/
The submission deadline for this third issue is: 31 May 2021.
See attached document and our website for more details: https://symphilosophie.com/archives/
Ce colloque a pour objectif l'étude d'un courant de pensée aussi vaste que prolifique en Europe : le romantisme. On se concentrera sur le romantisme allemand, dans la mesure où la philosophie joue un rôle particulièrement important dans sa naissance et dans son développement. Le thème du colloque rentre pleinement dans le champ de recherche du laboratoire « Métaphysique allemande et philosophie pratique » (MAPP, EA 2626), à savoir la philosophie allemande depuis la fin du XVIII e siècle jusqu'à la seconde moitié du XX e siècle. Ce colloque doit être conçu en continuité avec les séances du séminaire du laboratoire qui se tiendront au printemps 2017, et qui seront consacrées à la naissance du romantisme allemand (avec une attention particulière aux réflexions de l'un de ses fondateurs, Friedrich Schlegel), fournissant par là une base solide aux travaux qui se développeront au cours du colloque ici présenté. Si le séminaire donnera surtout de l'espace aux membres du laboratoire de recherche de Poitiers et à des collègues provenant d'autres institutions françaises, le colloque adoptera une dimension résolument internationale, constituant ainsi le premier événement international organisé par le MAPP sur le thème du romantisme allemand. La pertinence de ce colloque se répercute à différents niveaux. Avant tout, il constituera une des rares manifestations internationales organisées, en France, sur le romantisme allemand. Non seulement cela contribuera à augmenter le rayonnement propre du MAPP sur le plan international, confirmant l'Université de Poitiers comme l'un des centres principaux en France pour l'étude de la philosophie allemande, mais on peut prévoir aussi que ce colloque participera à attirer à nouveau l'attention, en France, sur le romantisme allemand, et à y réactiver les recherches à son sujet. Pour l'heure, contrairement à ce qui arrive dans le reste de l'Europe, il n'est guère possible d'identifier en France une recherche collective et systématique concernant le romantisme allemand, le paysage se composant plutôt de recherches spécialisées isolées, privées de moments de confrontation et de discussion : à travers ce colloque, on espère stimuler l'essor d'études et de parcours nouveaux, qui puissent voir en Poitiers un des centres névralgiques de référence à l'échelon national et international.
The main focus of this second issue is the thought of the women thinkers and writers of philosophical romanticism, among others: Karoline von Günderrode, Caroline Schlegel, Dorothea Veit, Sophie Mereau, Germaine de Staël, Bettina von Arnim.
Apart from a section on the main topic, SYMPHILOSOPHIE also has a further section containing miscellaneous essays. Original research articles and reviews on other topics of philosophical romanticism will therefore also be considered for this second issue.
SYMPHILOSOPHIE accepts submissions in the English, French, German and Italian languages.
The submission deadline is: 31 May 2020.
Journal website: https://symphilosophie.com
https://symphilosophie.com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Editorial (EN, DE, FR, IT)
Giulia Valpione and Laure Cahen-Maurel
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Introduction (EN)
Leif Weatherby
The Emergent Organism: Kielmeyer, Röschlaub, Schelling, Novalis
Stefani Engelstein
Ein Schuss in die blaue Luft – The Early German Romantic Hypothesis
Jocelyn Holland
Von Lavoisier zu Baader. Einige Bemerkungen zur nachkantischen Naturphilosophie
[From Lavoisier to Baader: Some Remarks on Post-Kantian Philosophy of Nature]
Alberto Bonchino
Friedrich Schlegel’s Philosophy of the Middle, or Physics and the Transition Between Forms
Gabrielle Reid
The ‘Sound Figures’ and Naturphilosophie in A. W. Schlegel’s Lectures on Art History and Aesthetics
Steven P. Lydon
Individuation and Disindividuation: Karoline von Günderrode’s Aesthetics of Naturphilosophie
Gabriel Trop
What is Life? At the Roots of Romantic Philosophy: Kant’s Philosophical Vitalism
Márcio Suzuki
TRANSLATIONS
1. Franz von Baader
On the Pythagorean Square in Nature, or the Four World-Regions (1798)
Translated and introduced by Carlos Zorrilla Piña
Sul solido e sul liquido (1808)
Introduzione e traduzione di Alberto Bonchino
2. Friedrich Schlegel
Sulla fisica (1798)
Introduzione e traduzione di Giulia Valpione
3. Novalis
Mathematical Fragments (1798-1800)
Translated and introduced by David W. Wood
The Disciples of Saïs (1798), excerpt
Translated, introduced, and annotated by James D. Reid
4. Karoline von Günderrode
Sur la chimie et l’astronomie (1804-1806)
Traduction, présentation et notes de Laure Cahen-Maurel
5. Johann Ritter
Premonishment to the Physical-Chemical Treatises (1806)
Translated and introduced by Jocelyn Holland
6. Carl Gustav Carus
Des règnes de la nature, leur vie et leur parenté. Un essai physiologique (1818), extraits
Traduction, présentation et notes de Charlotte Morel
Miscellaneous
1. Friedrich Schleiermacher
Sur le naïf (1789)
Traduction, présentation et notes d’Emmanuel Chaput
2. Arthur Schopenhauer
La tête et le coeur. Extraits choisis du Nachlass
Traduction, présentation et notes de Marie-Michèle Blondin
Reviews
Michael N. Forster, Lina Steiner (eds.), Romanticism, Philosophy, and Literature (Palgrave, 2020)
Reviewed by Henry Pickford
Karolin Mirzakhan, An Ironic Approach to the Absolute. Schlegel’s Poetic Mysticism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
Reviewed by Alberto Giacomelli
Elizabeth Millán Brusslan (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Romantic Philosophy (2020)
Reviewed by Carlos Zorrilla Piña
Dezső Gurka (ed.), Changes in the Image of Man from the Enlightenment to the Age of Romanticism: Philosophical and Scientific Receptions of (Physical) Anthropology in the 18-19th Centuries (Gondolat, 2019)
Recensito da Giulia Valpione
Jacob Burda, Das gute Unendliche in der deutschen Frühromantik. Mit einem Geleitwort von Bazon Brock und einer Replik von Manfred Frank (Metzler, 20202)
Reviewed by David W. Wood
Bulletin
Latest Publications, Calls for Papers, and Upcoming Conferences
It introduces the mission of our journal and provides a survey of the recent debates on the relationship between the philosophies of German romanticism and German idealism.
This text is available in four languages: English, français, deutsch, italiano.
https://symphilosophie.com/2019-1-eng/
It gives a short overview of women in the history of philosophy from the German romantics to the present day.
It is available to read in four languages: English, français, deutsch, italiano. It appeared online on the journal's website: https://symphilosophie.com/1938-2/
Università di Trento, 20 aprile 2023, ore 16.00, Palazzo Paolo Prodi, via Tommaso Gar 14.
Discussant: Paolo Costa, Claudia Terra, Giulia Valpione
Chair: Olivia Guaraldo