From Romanticism to Critical Theory by Bowie, Andrew -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents Preface and acknowledgements Introduction: Renewing the theoretical canon

The roots of literary theory Literature, aesthetics and ideology The romantic heritage The truth of literature

1. Philosophical origins: Kant, Jacobi, and the crisis of reason

2. Shifting the ground: ‘Where philosophy ceases literature must begin’

‘The philology of philosophy’ (Friedrich Schlegel) Judgement, schema and language ‘To begin with one only spoke in poetry’

3. The philosophy of critique and the critique of philosophy: Romantic literary theory

4. Interpretative reasons

The ‘anarchy of convictions’ Spirit and letter Knowing what we mean: the semantic and hermeneutic alternatives

5. The ethics of interpretation: Schleiermacher

Beginning in the middle Playing by the rules ‘Thought’ and ‘feeling’ ‘There is no such thing as a language’/‘there is no such thing as literature’

6. Being true: Dilthey, Husserl and Heidegger (1)

Heideggerian questions Understanding and explaining Understanding being

7. The truth of art: Heidegger (2)

The turn to art Putting the truth into the work The subject of art

8. Understanding Walter Benjamin

Language and origins ‘The concept of art-critique in German Romanticism’ Salvaging the truth Redemption or illusion?

9. The culture of truth: Adorno

Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index