1st Edition
The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History
By Asko Nivala
Copyright 2017
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
282 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of history is often confused with the longing for the past Golden Age. In this book, the Romantic idea of Golden Age is seen from a new angle by discussing it in the context of Friedrich Schlegel’s works. Interestingly, Schlegel argued that the concept of a past Golden Age in the beginning of history was itself a product of antiquity,... Read more
Introduction
Part I: The Golden Age and Primitivism
1. The Savages
2. Prometheus and Orpheus
3. Atlantis
Part II: The Blossoming and Decline of Culture
4. The Age of Blossoming in Athens
5. Alexandria
Part III: The Problem of a National Golden Age
6. The Roman Model: Golden Age as a Modern Disease
7. From Classicism to Romanticism
Part IV: Kingdom of God
8. German Tradition of Chiliasm
9. From Eschatology to Kairology
10. The Gospel of Nature
11. Medievalism as the Externalisation of the Golden Age
Conclusion
Biography
Asko Nivala is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland.
