Return of the Gods

Informationen zum Autor Owen Ware is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Fichte's Moral Philosophy (OUP, 2020), Kant's Justification of Ethics (OUP, 2021), Kant on Freedom (CUP, 2023), Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany (Routledge, 2024), and the co-editor of Fichte's System of Ethics: A Critical Guide (CUP, 2021). Klappentext Return of the Gods argues that the romantics turned to mythology for its potential to transform how we see ourselves, others, and the world. Engaging with authors such as William Blake, Friedrich Schlegel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis), and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Owen Ware combines intellectual history with philosophical analysis and literary criticism to offer a bold reflection on why mythology mattered for the romantics--and why it still matters today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Romantic Mythologies 1: Life and Ideal 2: Mythologies Old and New 3: Marriages of Heaven and Hell 4: Searching for the Blue Flower 5: The Imageless Truth Conclusion: Return of the Gods

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Owen Ware is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Fichte's Moral Philosophy (OUP, 2020), Kant's Justification of Ethics (OUP, 2021), Kant on Freedom (CUP, 2023), Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany (Routledge, 2024), and the co-editor of Fichte's System of Ethics: A Critical Guide (CUP, 2021).

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Return of the Gods argues that the romantics turned to mythology for its potential to transform how we see ourselves, others, and the world. Engaging with authors such as William Blake, Friedrich Schlegel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis), and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Owen Ware combines intellectual history with philosophical analysis and literary criticism to offer a bold reflection on why mythology mattered for the romantics--and why it still matters today.

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• Introduction: Romantic Mythologies

• 1: Life and Ideal

• 2: Mythologies Old and New

• 3: Marriages of Heaven and Hell

• 4: Searching for the Blue Flower

• 5: The Imageless Truth

• Conclusion: Return of the Gods