Critic, poet and philosopher Friedrich von Schlegel (1772 1829) was a leading figure of German Romanticism. In the two years before his untimely death, he wrote three cycles of lectures intended as part of a larger project to lay the foundations of a new general philosophy. Two of these cycles, 'Philosophie des Lebens' (given in 1827, published 1828) and 'Philosophie des Sprache und des Wortes' (given in December 1828 and published posthumously), are reissued here in an 1847 English translation. The first presents Schlegel's understanding of philosophy as independent of theology or politics,...
Critic, poet and philosopher Friedrich von Schlegel (1772 1829) was a leading figure of German Romanticism. In the two years before his untimely death...
