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Single Idea 22067

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism]

Full Idea

Poetry is true idealism - contemplation of the world as contemplation of a large mind - self-consciousness of the universe.

Gist of Idea

Poetry is true idealism, and the self-consciousness of the universe

Source

Novalis (Logological Fragments I [1798], vol 3 p.640), quoted by Ernst Behler - Early German Romanticism

Book Reference

'A Companion to Continental Philosophy', ed/tr. Critchley,S/Schroeder,W [Blackwell 1999], p.77


A Reaction

It looks like the step from Fichte's idealism to the Absolute is poetry, which embraces the ultimate Spinozan substance through imagination. Or something...