Smith suggested, the individual was ever ambitious and striving. This ambition, Smith writes, “a desire which comes with us from the womb and never leaves us until we go into the grave.”
“Poetry elevates every particular through a distinctive combination with the rest of the whole—and if philosophy, with its legislation, first prepares the world for the effective influence of ideas, poetry is, as it were, the key to philosophy, its end and significance.”
Novalis
“ And since memory, as Edelman reminds us, is never a simple recording or reproduction, but an active process of recategorization - of reconstruction, of imagination, determined by our own values and perspectives - …”
This second new volume of essays by Paul Guyer, one of the world's leading #Kant scholars, examines Kant's #transcendentalmethod in his theoretical philosophy and the teleological character of his approach to philosophy as a whole
The champion of modern mysticism against rationalistic enlightenment is Hamann. He desires to know the content of the outer divine revelation vitally regenerated from the soil of his own spirit,
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"Kendine dön bak: Dikkatini seni saran her şeyden uzaklaştır ve kendi içine yönelt. Felsefenin, çırağından ilk talebi budur. Söz konusu olan, senin dışında bulunan herhangi bir şey değil, bilakis yalnızca sen kendinsin." —Fichte (1797)
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[Erste Einleitung... (SW 1: 422)]
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"Karşıtlıklar olmadan ilerleme olmaz.
Çekim ve itim,
akıl ve erklik,
sevgi ve nefret;
zorunludur insan varoluşu için bunlar."
—William Blake
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[Cennet ile Cehennemin Evliliği (1790), Levha 3]
1DS sonrası Viyana'sında yaşanan açlık krizine dikkat çekmek için Alman sanatçı Käthe Kollwitz tarafından hazırlanan poster (1920): "Viyana ölüyor! Çocuklarını kurtarın!"
Novalis's ‘Heinrich von Ofterdingen': A New Translation & Critical Study Hardcover – July 31 2026
by Owen Ware Ed. Trans.
"Owen Ware explores how Novalis probes the core problem of modern life – fragmentation and our sense of alienation from the world."
A grand story beginning with a father crisis, as all great stories do.
Text Source: Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: The Triumph of Impressionism, Taschen, p. 24.