Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1988
Abstract
The Romantics are not widely regarded as philosophers, at least not in philosophy departments, where they are seldom taught. Some of the reasons behind this exclusion of the Romantics involve a general disdain for literature; other reasons suggest a more specific uneasiness with Romanticism itself—with its apparent interest in animism, its self-indulgence, its coolness toward reason, and, perhaps above all, its refusal to abide by Kant's containment of skepticism. These complaints are not the invention of paranoid or obtuse academic philosophers (as some literary critics might like to think). In fact, some of these objections have dogged the Romantics from the beginning. There is something risky, or outlandish, about Romanticism that these criticisms bring out.
Identifier
10.1353/phl.1988.0016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
City
Baltimore, MD
Repository Citation
Fischer, M. (1988). Accepting the romantics as philosophers. Philosophy and Literature, 12(2), 179-189. doi: 10.1353/phl.1988.0016
Publication Information
Philosophy and Literature