German Romanticism and Idealism Beyond Nostalgia And Reaction

About this episode

The episode discusses the intersections of philosophy, poetry, art, and science in the context of German Romanticism and Idealism, focusing on Schelling's contributions.

Romanticism gets treated like a synonym for nostalgia, and German Idealism gets shrunk to a few brand-name thinkers. We push back on both habits by talking with Christopher Satoor, a York University doctoral candidate and founder of the Young Idealist series, about what really happens when philosophy, poetry, art, and science collide in Jena. Schelling sits at the center of that collision. We dig into why his Naturphilosophie is neither “woo” nor a quaint premodern science lesson, but a seri...

People in this episode

Host: C. Derick Varn

Guest: Christopher Satoor

Topics covered

• German Romanticism
• Idealism
• philosophy
• poetry
• art
• science
• Schelling

Keywords

• German Romanticism
• Idealism
• Schelling
• Naturphilosophie
• philosophy
• poetry
• art
• science

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: York University

Books & works: Naturphilosophie

Places: Jena

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