| Jena Romanticism and Its Appropriation of Jakob Böhme: Theosophy, Hagiography, Literature Volume 27 Contributor(s): Mayer, Paola (Author) |
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ISBN: 0773518525 ISBN-13: 9780773518520 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1999 Annotation: Interest in German Romanticism has been revitalized in recent years by new post-structural, interdisciplinary, and intertextual perspectives. However until now this renewed interest has not led to a re-examination of Jakob Bohme's formative influence on Jena Romanticism. Paola Mayer radically revises previous views, arguing that the relationship between Bohme and the Jena Romantics should be understood as appropriation rather than influence. This reversal of perspective leads to the recognition that Romanticism's interaction with Bohme was not passive but polemical, selective, and predatory. Not only was there not an influence, there was not even a Bohme, since his name and aspects of the writings were adapted to promote ideas wholly unrelated to any historical person or body of thought that might have been Bohme. Jena Romanticism and Its Appropriation of Jakob Bohme treats his Romantic reception as a striking example of how the past is appropriated and rewritten in the service of self-affirmation. Analysing the need and the techniques for this self-affirmation sheds light on the nature of the self to be affirmed and on the content and underlying motivation of the Romantic program. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 141 |
| LCCN: 2001280168 |
| Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.34" W x 9.34" (1.13 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
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| Publisher Description: These appropriations fall into two main groups: those pertaining to the name B hme or a life assigned to it, and those involving concepts or images from the mystic's oeuvre. The first group constituted an attempt to co-opt the aura of sanctity attached to portrayals of the poet-prophet in order to invest Romantic Poesie with the sacral standing of religion. The second group, exemplified by Friedrich Schlegel and Friedrich Schelling, involved the borrowing and radical redefinition of a few concepts and images from B hme's work in the hope of bridging the gap between the abstract first principle of idealism and the personal God that became an emotional necessity for both thinkers. Jena Romanticism and Its Appropriation of Jakob B hme treats the Romantic reception of B hme as a striking example of how the past is appropriated and rewritten in the service of self-affirmation. Analysing the need and the techniques for this self-affirmation sheds light on the nature of the self to be affirmed and on the content and underlying motivation of the Romantic program. |