The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History

The nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of history is often confused with the longing for the past Golden Age. In this book, the Golden Age is seen from a new angle by discussing it in the context of the works of Friedrich Schlegel, who saw it not as bygone, but to be produced in the future.

Autorentext

Asko Nivala is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland.

Inhalt

Introduction

Part I: The Golden Age and Primitivism

1. The Savages

2. Prometheus and Orpheus

3. Atlantis

Part II: The Blossoming and Decline of Culture

4. The Age of Blossoming in Athens

5. Alexandria

Part III: The Problem of a National Golden Age

6. The Roman Model: Golden Age as a Modern Disease

7. From Classicism to Romanticism

Part IV: Kingdom of God

8. German Tradition of Chiliasm

9. From Eschatology to Kairology

10. The Gospel of Nature

11. Medievalism as the Externalisation of the Golden Age

Conclusion