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Tilottama Rajan and Arkady Plotnitsky, editors. Idealism Without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture.(Book Review)

Studies in Romanticism,  December, 2004  by Simpson, David

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Tilottama Rajan and Arkady Plotnitsky, editors. Idealism Without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. Pp. 262. $50.00.

The subtitle of this book will seem to some readers a flagrant misnomer, for it does not engage with British or French philosophy at all. It limits itself to German philosophy (with a touch of Kierkegaard), and within German philosophy it is the figure of Hegel that looms largest. The scope of the argument includes Kant, Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Holderlin, Schopenhauer, Schelling, Nietzsche and ...

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