Manfred Frank is Professor of Philosophy at Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, Germany. He is the author of many books, including The Subject and the Text: Essays in Literature and Philosophy. Elizabeth Millán-Zaibert is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. She is the coeditor (with Jorge J. E. Gracia) of Latin American Philosophy for the Twenty-first Century: The Human Condition, Values, and the Search for Identity and translator of The History of Philosophy in Colonial Mexico by Mauricio Beuchot.

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Introduction: "What Is Early German Romanticism?"

Lecture 1. On Early German Romanticism as an Essentially Skeptical Movement: The Reinhold-Fichte Connection

Lecture 2. On the Historical Origins of Novalis' Critique of Fichte

Lecture 3. On the Unknowability of the Absolute: Historical Background and Romantic Reactions

Lecture 4. On the Search for the Unconditioned: From Jacobi's 'Feeling' to Schelling and Holderlin's 'Intellectual Intuition'

Lecture 5. On Holderlin's Disagreement with Schelling's Ich-Schrift

Lecture 6. On Holderlin's Critique of Fichte

Lecture 7. On Isaac von Sinclair

Lecture 8. On Jakob Zwilling's Uber das Alles

Lecture 9. On Novalis' Pivotal Role in Early German Romanticism

Lecture 10. On Friedrich Schlegel's Place in the Jena Constellation

Lecture 11. On the Origins of Schlegel's Talk of a Wechselerweis and His Move Away from a Philosophy of First Principles

Lecture 12. On Schlegel's Role in the Genesis of Early German Romantic Theory of Art

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