ROMANTICISMS READING LIST
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778):
Johann Georg Hamann (1730 - 1788):
"Letter to Kraus" (1784)
"Metacritique of the Purism of Reason" (1784)
"Aesthetics in a Nutshell" (1762)
Socratic Memorabilia (1759)
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803):
"Ideas for a Philosophy of the History of Mankind" (1784-1791)
"On the Cognition and Sensation of the Human Soul" (1778)
"This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity" (1774)
"Shakespeare" (1773) [pp. 291-307 in his Selected Writings on Aesthetics]
"Treatise on the Origin of Language" (1772)
Wilhelm Humboldt (1767 - 1835):
On Language (1836) [see excerpt "On the Differences in Human Linguistic Structure" (1830-1835), pp. 486-491 in Adams]
"On the National Character of Languages" (1822) [pp. 485-486 in Adams]
"On the Task of the Historian" (1821)
"On the Origin of Grammatical Forms and their Influence on the Development of Ideas" (1822)
"On the Comparative Study of Language and its Relation to the Different Periods of Language Development" (1820) [excerpted pp. 484-485 in Adams]
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834):
""Outline of the 1819 Lectures" (1819) [pp. 613-626 in Leitch]
Wilhelm Dilthey (1833 - 1911):
"The Understanding of Other Persons and their Life-expressions" (1901-1911; 1926)
"The Types of World Views and their Unfoldment within the Metaphysical Systems" (1911)
"The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences" (1910)
"The Rise of Hermeneutics" (1900)
"The Imagination of the Poet: Elements for a Poetics" (1887)
Introduction to the Human Sciences (1883)
"On Understanding and Hermeneutics" (1867-1868)
GERMAN AND NEO-HEGELIAN IDEALISM
Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 - 1814):
Philosophy of Right (1821)
Aesthetics (1820s; 1835): Introduction [pp. 533-545 in Adams; pp. 636-644 in Leitch]
Science of Logic (1812-1816; 1831)
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807): Master-Slave Dialectic [pp. 630-636 in Leitch]
Reason in History: a General Introduction to the Philosophy of History (1805-6; 1837)
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775 - 1854):
"On the Relation of the Plastic Arts to Nature" (1807) [pp. 457-467 in Leitch]
The Philosophy of Art (1802-1803)
System of Transcendental Idealism (1800)
"On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History" (1841)
Sartor Resartus (1831): "Natural Supernaturalism" [pp. 546-549 in Adams]
"Signs of the Times" (1829)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882):
"The Poet" (1842-1843) [pp. 557-566 in Adams; pp. 724-239 in Leitch]
An Address to the Senior Class in Divinity, Cambridge, July 15, 1838.
"The American Scholar" (1837)
Nature (1836)
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860):
Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855):
Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900):
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (1886)
"The Use and Abuse of History" (1874)
"On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense" (1873) [pp. 634-639 in Adams; pp. 874-884 in Leitch]
The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music (1872) [pp. 629-634 in Adams; pp. 884-895 in Leitch]
ARTS AND AESTHETICS / CRITICAL THEORY
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832):
Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann (1836) [pp. 530-532 in Adams]
Friedrich Schiller (1759 - 1805):
"On Naive and Sentimental Poetry" (1795-1796)
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education Of Man (1795) [pp. 416-427 in Adams; pp. 573-582 in Leitch]
"On the Sublime" (1793)
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850):
"Preface to Lyrical Ballads" (1800) [pp. 437-446 in Adams; pp. 648-667 in Leitch]
Friedrich von Schlegel (1772 - 1829):
Lectures on the History of Literature, Ancient and Modern (1812): Lectures 1, 12
"On Incomprehensibility" (1800) [pp. 434-435 in Adams]
"Athenaeum Fragments" (1798) [pp. 432-434 in Adams]
"Critical Fragments" (1797) [pp. 429-432 in Adams]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834):
"Shakespeare's Judgment Equal to his Genius" (1836) [pp. 469-471 in Adams]
"On Poesy or Art" (1818) []
Biographia Literaria (1817) [pp. 476-480 in Adams; pp. 674-681 in Leitch]
The Statesman's Manual: Symbol and Allegory (1816) [p. 476 in Adams; pp. 672-674 in Leitch]
"On the Principles of Genial Criticism" (1814) [pp. 471-476 in Adams]
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822):
"A Defence of Poetry" (1821) [pp. 516-529 in Adams; pp. 699-716 in Leitch]
Letters (1817-1818) [pp. 493-494 in Adams]
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804 - 1869):
"What is a Classic?" (1850) [pp. 567-573 in Adams]
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867):
"The Painter of Modern Life" (1863) [pp. 792-801 in Leitch]
"Le Salon de 1859" (1859) [pp. 622-623 in Adams]
Hippolyte Taine (1828 - 1893):
History of English Literature: "Introduction" (1863-1864) [pp. 609-620 in Adams]