Transcendental poetry
Transcendental poetry is a term used in the early romantic literary program. It initially refers hermeneutically to existing holdings, which it evaluates in the light of an art that has yet to be designed .
background
The coining of the term goes back to Friedrich Schlegel , who in the 238th Athenaeum fragment defines a poetry "according to the analogy of the philosophical artificial language", whose "one and all is the relationship between the ideal and the real". In fragment 247 he describes “ Dante's prophetic poem” as “the only system of transcendental poetry” which, with the romantic art of Shakespeare and Goethe's “poetry of poetry”, forms the “great triad of modern poetry”.
By combining criticism and poetry, Schlegel wants to integrate transcendental poetry into the concept of modern , romantic art.
Schlegel did not take the term transcendental directly from the writings of Immanuel Kant , but from the adaptations of others - such as Jacobi - and referred to points of view that strive towards totality . Nonetheless, he sticks to the Kantian question about the transcendental conditions of the possibility of experiences and quotes Schiller's concept of sentimental art . This way of poetry differs from naive poetry (Shakespeare or Goethe), among other things, in the reflection , the relation to the idea . Schlegel wants to implement the program by building on the poets' self-reflection, which is characteristic of modern literature and which was already recognizable among the Greeks.
Also Novalis speaks of transcendental determined, however, with him, despite common terminology roots, different and "the things mysterious Being" refers to. This mystery transcends the phenomena of consciousness and is declared to be the point of view of poetry. Without knowing it, all real poets would have “poetized” organically and thus transcendentally.
As he writes in the 47th fragment of his preparatory work on various fragment collections from 1798, the “transcendental poetry ... is mixed from philosophy and poetry”, basically deals with “all transcendental functions” and contains “in fact the transcendental in general . "The transcendental poet is thus the transcendental man himself. In the 48th fragment he goes on to say that a tropic can be expected from the treatment of transcendental poetry , which" understands the laws of the symbolic construction of the transcendental world. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Transcendentalpoesie , in: Historical Dictionary of Philosophy , Vol. 10, pp. 1438–1439
- ↑ Quotation from: Transzendentalpoesie , Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, Vol. 10, p. 1438
- ↑ Transzendental , Historical Dictionary of Philosophy, Vol. 10, pp. 1393-1394
- ↑ Transcendental Poetry , in: Historical Dictionary of Philosophy, Vol. 10, p. 1439
- ^ Novalis , preliminary work on various fragment collections 1798, fragments 48, 49, works, diaries and letters by Friedrich von Hardenberg, Volume 2, Das philosophisch-theoretical Werk, edited by Hans-Joachim Mähl , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft , Darmstadt, 1999, p. 325