Essays on Kant, Schelling, and German Aesthetics - Paperback

by Henry Crabb Robinson (Author), James Vigus (Editor)

It is usually assumed that the only British Romantic writer who engaged meaningfully with German philosophy was S. T. Coleridge. This edition disproves that assumption. The book collects thirteen essays and one set of lecture notes written by Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867) during his period in Germany (1800-1805). As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Robinson became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. The contents include 'Letters on the Philosophy of Kant' and notes from F. W. J. Schelling's lectures on the philosophy of art. Further, Robinson's private lectures for Madame de Staël are presented with her marginalia. In the intellectual history of Romanticism, Robinson emerges as a major figure whose lucid and entertaining essays can still guide the modern reader through the key German texts.