Mental Illness as Irony: Hegel's Diagnosis of Novalis

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  • Jeffrey Reid University of Ottawa Kanada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/stheg.10.2024.17808

Schlagworte:

Early German Romanticism

Abstract

Hegel reads the poet Novalis as an expression of terminal irony, a pathological case of Gemüt, where the conscious mind is alienated from reality and turns its negativity inwards on the contents of its own natural soul. The condition of self-feeling, presented in Hegel’s “Anthropology”, is a self-consumption that manifests itself somatically in the physical disease (consumption) from which Novalis dies. The poet’s literary production represents a pathological fixation that impedes the dynamic organicity of Hegelian Science. As such, Novalis’s mental illness and death constitute an expression of romantic irony and an ongoing threat to Hegel’s philosophy.

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Literaturhinweise

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G. W. F. Hegel, Werke in 20 Bänden [Werke, followed by volume and page numbers], Eva Moldenhauer and Karl Markus Michel (eds.). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1970.

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Reid, Jeffrey, “Hegel on Schleiermacher and Postmodernity”, Clio, 32,4 (Summer 2003)

Reid, Jeffrey, “How the Dreaming Soul Became the Feeling Soul, Between the 1827 and 1830 Editions of Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit: Empirical Psychology and the Late Enlightenment”, in David S. Stern (ed.), Essays on Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit. Albany: SUNY Press, 2013.

Reid, Jeffrey, The Anti-Romantic: Hegel Against Ironic Romanticism. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.

Reid, Jeffrey, “Hegel’s Critique of Romantic Irony” in Elizabeth Millan Brusslan and Judith Norman (eds.), Brill’s Companion to German Romantic Philosophy. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

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Zitationsvorschlag

Reid, J. (2024). Mental Illness as Irony: Hegel’s Diagnosis of Novalis. Studia Hegeliana, 10, 7–21. https://doi.org/10.24310/stheg.10.2024.17808