Self-Awareness and Irony. A Reading about the Origins of Romantic Thought of Friedrich Schlegel

Abstract

This paper focuses on the review of Wilhelm Meister’s Years of Apprenticeship that makes Friedrich Schlegel 1798. From an examination of it, attempts to show that the critical moments schlegelian reading Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister were oriented to question the classicist’s perspective that the young philosopher had argued a few years ago in On the Study of Greek Poetry. As will attempt to demonstrate, this criticism would have allowed to Schlegel to problematize the subjectivist concepts that permeated its former conception of beauty, and have resulted in an aesthetic theory that was aware of the necessity and the impossibility of a completed representation of subjectivity.