Early German Romanticism sought to respond to a comprehensive sense of spiritual crisis
that characterised the late eighteenth century. The study demonstrates how the Romantics …

Schiller und Hölderlin gehören um 1800 zu einer Gruppe von Autoren, die ihre
literarästhetische Position in Abgrenzung zur zeitgenössischen Philosophie bestimmen. Sie …

René Girard, in the wake of the critical theorists Adorno and Horkheimer, offers “an analysis
of the present epoch.” His work can be seen as a further attempt to articulate the “dialectic of …

Der folgende Beitrag ist im Laufe der Arbeit am vorliegenden Sammelband entstanden.
Mehrere Beiträge kommen zum Schluss, dass Girards Buch Im Angesicht der Apokalypse in …

In this essay I compare the poetic thought of Hölderlin with the systematic Idealism of his
intellectual peer, Hegel. Although they share a single intellectual genealogy and manifest …

Die Bedeutsamkeit der Romantik als geistiger Quelle unserer Zeit ist allgegenwärtig. Als
Bewegung ging es ihr darum, eine Methode zu finden, den Pluralismus ohne Relativismus …

The work of the influential Jesuit theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) has
become a common point of reference in discussing the relationship of theology and the arts …

Caspar David Friedrich is often held up as the consummate Romantic artist. Celebrated
paintings such as Der Mönch am Meer (Monk by the Sea, 1808–10), Der Wanderer über …

In a series of essays published in 2009 and 2010, Graham Ward has argued that 'literature
can never be entirely secular'or, more strongly still, that 'literature resists secularity'(Ward …

The article explores how the works of English poet William Blake and German poet Friedrich
Holderlin showcase French historian René Girard's mimetic desire and apocalyptic …