Relational Aesthetics and Romantic Poetics
If you thought relational aesthetics (Bourriaud 2002) was something new then read this the celebrated fragment 116 in which Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) defined romantic poetry thusly: (more…)
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Philosophical Poetry
The romantic literary theorist Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) was, as Michael Weston explains, inspired by Kantian philosophy to the extent that he exclaimed “poetry and philosophy should be made one” (Schlegel 1971: 115; in Weston 2001: 8). And the basis of this modern philosophical poetry lies the fundamental unknowableness of the Kantian thing-in-itself, unknowable because according to Kant’s philosophy the synthesising genius of imagination effectively creates reality. (more…)
