Exploring the full range of Novalis's (the pen name of the German poet and philosopher Friedrich von Hardenberg) work, von Molnar shows how he dealt, in theory and practice, with a central issue in Romanticism-the emerging concept of the autonomous self and its relation.
Forward by Prof. Jochen Schulte-Sasse, Dept. of German, Scandinavian and Dutch, and co-founder Dept. of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Co-editor of the series Theory and History of Literature, University of Minnesota Press.