Who Needs Morality? Goethe’s Passions
THE well-known Enlightenment figure, Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832), had an interesting view on maintaining virtue
Poetry
The Romantic Manifesto: William Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
FIRST published in 1798, the Lyrical Ballads was a collection of poems by William Wordsworth
Frost at Midnight: Naturphilosophie in the Work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
SAMUEL Taylor Coleridge was born in the small Devon town of Ottery St. Mary in
Knowledge without Constraints: How Friedrich Hölderlin Overcame the Kantian-Fichtean Stranglehold
FRIEDRICH Hölderlin (1770-1843), who explored the mystical links between philosophy and poetry, was possibly the
Coronalis (poetic remix of E.Pound’s Usura, Canto XLV)
“Corpses are set to statistical banquet
at the behest of the UN-WEF-WHO”
ANARCHY IN ALL BUT NAME: A FRESH LOOK AT OSCAR WILDE’S ‘THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM’
WRITTEN in 1891, The Soul of Man Under Socialism was the first political essay to
A Restless Striving: Friedrich Schlegel and the Complementarity of Poetry and Philosophy through Absolute Idealism
FRIEDRICH Schlegel (1772-1829) is another Romantic who, just like fellow countrymen Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), Novalis
Longing for the Absolute: Novalis and ‘Magical Idealism’
DURING the course of a recent introductory article about German philosophy (‘Thinking Our Way to
Thinking Our Way to God: Romantic Philosophy and the Coming of Absolute Idealism
SPEAKING in a purely philosophical context, I would describe myself as an Absolute Idealist in
Poem: Putre Factio
If I wur a magician, oid conjure and forth spewwiv pride a pretty vixen who’d
