Romanticism and Cultural Criticism
Romanticism and Cultural Criticism

Summary/Abstract: “To begin with, I would like to make some preliminary remarks on the methodological status of my theses and on the concept of romanticism: a) I am not primarily concerned with an empirical investigation of the historical relationship between Enlightenment and romanticism. Rather, my primary concern it conceptual clarification. Is what we usually understand by "Enlightenment" compatible or incomr,atible with our understanding of "romanticism"? These concepts are frequently used in such a way that an unbridgeable opposition between them is created. Such an understanding of romanticism and Enlightenment is historically plausible. Yet there are other explications of thorrection. ese concepts which are historically no less plausible, and which make is appear possible to overcome the fundamental opposition of Enlightenment and romanticism in favour of a dialectical strategy of mediation, complementation, and reciprocal correction.

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