Activity as an Ethical and Aesthetic Ideal: Philosophy of German Romanticism

Activity as an Ethical and Aesthetic Ideal: Philosophy of German Romanticism

Chair: Richard Eldridge (University of Tennessee)

Speakers:

Anne Pollok (University of South Carolina) “Bettina von Arnim and the Joys of Politics: What Kind of Activity Is Political Agitation?”
Johannes Haag (Universität Potsdam) “Hölderlin on Intellectual Intuition and Aesthetic Sense”
Kristen Gjesdal (Temple University) “Germaine de Staël and the Politics of History”
Mattias Pirholt (Södertörn University) “Ethics and Aesthetic Energy: The Concept of Tatkraft in Karl Philipp Moritz’s Work”