Shadows of Hegelian schöne Seele in Epipsychidion
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.45.2020.23062Keywords:
Spirit, self-consciousness, soul, becoming.Abstract
Spirit is entirely individual and active, not an abstraction of the human
nature, and it is absolutely alive, a consciousness whose existence consists of having itself as an object. Spirit, Hegel observes, devises a certain essential representation of itself, emerging, firstly, as a soul, latent ideality or immateriality of matter, diffusive psychic life in progress from the state of dark consciousness which reveals sensation to the unilateral empire of exacerbated feelings of itself, stigmas of disorder in the unfolding of Spirit,
misfit in a systematically organized world and able to let go of all the finite content. The prophetic view of art as a sensitive modality of expression of the non-spiritual, since being imaginarily assumed by the absolute Spirit, underlies in Shelley’s Epipsychidion: the real experience of the Utopian starts to blur the dialectical tension between inner and outer, obstructive to the complete display of the spirit’s depth which includes both boundaries.
Downloads
References
BAUM, Manfred (1976). "Zur Vorgeschichte des Hegelschen Unendlichkeitsbegriffs". Hegel-Studien Vol. 11, pp. 89-124.
DOD, Elmar (1985). Die Vernünftigkeit der Imagination in Aufklärung und Romantik. Eine komparatistische Studie zu Schillers und Shelleys ästhetischen Theorien in ihrem europäischen Kontext, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.
HALL, Jean (1992). "The Divine and Dispassionate Selves: Shelley’s Defence and Peacock’s The Four Ages". Keats-Shelley Journal: Keats, Shelley, Byron, Hunt, and Their Circles Vol. 41, pp. 139-163.
HALL, Spencer (1983). "Power and the Poet: Religious Mythmaking in Shelley's 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' ". Keats-Shelley Journal Vol. 32, pp. 123-149.
HAUSER, Arnold (1968). Historia social de la literatura y el arte II, Madrid: Ediciones Guadarrama.
HEGEL, Georg W. Friedrich (1952). "Phänomenologie des Geistes". Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Sämtliche Werke: neue kritische Ausgabe V, Hamburg: Felix Meiner.
HIRSCH, Emanuel (1973). "Die Beisetzung der Romantiker in Hegels Phänomenologie". Materialen zu Hegels «Phänomenologie des Geistes». Ed. Hans Friedrich Fulda - Dieter Henrich, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, pp. 245-275.
HÖLDERLIN, Friedrich (1962). Urteil und Sein. Friedrich Hölderlin: Sämtliche Werke IV, Stuttgart: Hölderlin-Archiv der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek.
KNAPP, John (1999). "The Spirit of Classical Hymn in Shelley's 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' ", Style Vol. 33, pp. 43-66.
KUCICH, Greg (1991). Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press.
MAHONEY, John L. (1990). "Teaching 'To a Sky-Lark' in Relation to Shelley's Defense". Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Poetry. Ed. Spencer Hall, New York: MLA, pp. 83-85.
O'NEILL, Michael (1987). "Shelley's Epipsychidion: The Before Unapprehended Relations of Things". Essays in Criticism Vol. 37, Núm. 2, pp. 135-157.
PÖGGELER, Otto (1956). Hegels Kritik der Romantik, Bonn: H. Bouvier und Co.
REIMAN, Donald H. y FRAISTAT, Neil (2002). "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty". Shelley's Prose and Poetry, New York: Norton and Co.
RÜPKE, Jörg (2007). Religion of Romans, Cambridge: Polity Press.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (2008). Epipsychidion, Madrid: Visor.
SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1891). A Defense of Poetry. Ed. Albert S. Cook, Boston: Ginn & Co.
VERMA, Kamal V. (1995). The Vision of "Love's rare Universe". A Study of Shelley's Epipsychidion, Lanham: University Press of America.
