TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robert Eisenhauer
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Mythology of Souls
T2  - Philosophical Perspectives in the Novels of Jean Paul
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1078370
N2  - The works of Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 1763-1825) combined the idealism of Fichte with the sentimentality of the Sturm und Drang movement. In this study the relation between Jean Paul and 18th-century philosophy is described as dialogical in the sense that the author's statements concerning aesthetics, ethics, and religion take the form of appeals and responses to other philosophical texts. Three of his novels, Unsichtbare Loge, Hesperus, and Titan, are involved not only with the representation of quasi-fictive worlds, but also with the ironic reinscription of philosophemes from such sources as Herder, Jacobi, Platner, and Fichte. This inquiry into Jean Paul's «Seelen-Mythologie» and its problematic depiction of symbolic individuals takes into account the theory of the sublime and the «beautiful soul» which emerged during the enlightenment.
KW  - Idealism, Sentimentality, Sublime
LA  - English
ER  -