Schlegel : Friedrich von (1772-1829): German philosopher, critic, & writer, most prominent of the founders of the Romantic school. He studied Sanskrit in Paris.
... Romanticism presented the world with some of the greatest novelists, poets, philosophers and musicians: the literary men Herder, Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, Heine, Hölderlin; the philosophers Fichte, Schlegel, Hegel, all of them having to define themselves against Kant, paragon of the Aufklärung; and musicians of the stature of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, who even today delight so many hearts... elevated and abstract thinking in the history of philosophy, and is therefore often compared with the Socrates-Plato-Aristotle period in classical Athens. Nonetheless, figures of the format of Fichte, Schlegel and Hegel were so much embedded in the German awakening that, in one way or another, they managed to regard their idea of Germany as the culmination of world history and world culture. “With the ...
... philosophy; it is enough for me to know what Emerson or Schopenhauer or Nietzsche, three entirely different minds of the greatest power in this field, or what thinkers like Cousin Page 100 and Schlegel have to say about it or to mark the increasing influence of some of its conceptions, the great parallel lines of thought in earlier European thinking and the confirmations of ancient Indian metaphysics ...
... the other hand, is vague enough, but there is not much luminosity in its cloudiness and whatever thrill of ecstasy it has is more morbid, more nihilistic. Bowra quotes Novalis's letter to Caroline Schlegel in this connection: "I know that imagination is most attracted by what is most immoral, most animal; but I know how like a dream all imagination is, how it loves night, meaninglessness, and solitude ...
... the Gothic but, as Lucas does not seem to remem-ber, also related to notions like "rough", "giant", "yore", "sombrous imagery", "magic", "visionary rapture".* In 1801 the German philosopher of art, Schlegel, argued that it could apropriately be applied to work of mediaeval inspiration .by contrast to what is "Classical", in the same way as "Romance", the language evolved by the barbarian invaders, ...
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