Calls for Communion

This chapter presents Friedrich Hölderlin's works as post-Kantian German idealism. Hölderlin addressed problems of finitude in terms of unification: of the subject, of mind and world, of reason and freedom. He also contended that philosophy undertakes to solve the problem of unification once an...

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Published inLyric Orientations
Main Author Eldridge, Hannah Vandegrift
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cornell University Press 12.01.2016
Subjects
finitude
Friedrich Hölderlin
Literary Studies (European)
metaphysical finitude
post-Kantian German idealism
unification
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Summary:This chapter presents Friedrich Hölderlin's works as post-Kantian German idealism. Hölderlin addressed problems of finitude in terms of unification: of the subject, of mind and world, of reason and freedom. He also contended that philosophy undertakes to solve the problem of unification once and for all, performing the shift from metaphysical finitude to intellectual lack. Although he believed that the quest for certain knowledge necessarily fails, he critiqued the concept of “anxiety over finitude” in his theorizations—even as he sees unification as a task to be undertaken. This criticism became particularly relevant in his work during the years between his return from Bordeaux in 1802 and his institutionalization in 1806 lderlin's work.
ISBN:9780801456954
0801456959
DOI:10.7591/cornell/9780801456954.003.0005