Roy’s Reviews > The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism > Status Update

I’m so incredibly calm that I don’t know what to do with it.

Probably nothing.

Just enjoy it.

It’s been ages, if I’ve ever felt this way at all.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt so free from the relentless drive to develop as I do right now.

It’s still there, but without the force of decision.

My calmth is some sort of momentaneous, temporal immovability.

What will happen when the moment is over?

Interesting.

But I need a break.

Am I finally going to accept short reading sessions with relatively small progress as valuable?

Would be nice.

Once again, I’m reading so many of my fundamental thoughts and intuitions written into sentences.

I’ll have to delve into the philosophical works of Novalis, too.

And probably teach myself some logic.

I am starting to believe that my idea of relating Schiller to early German Romanticism is a valid idea to work out; there’s definitely connections with Schlegel and Novalis, perhaps with Hölderlin, too.

This is never going to stop…

Oh lord… A basic realism founded on skepticism to an absolute first principle…

These dudes took waywardness to its… ‘logical’… extremes, straight down into the unending, ever-expanding dimensions of philosophy…

I can see why I’m so drawn to them…

It’s basically got the drawing force of a black hole.

Perhaps I should move back to reality when I’m done with my masters…

Yup, this is showing to be exactly what I thought already, to confirm my intuitions in reading Schelling, and before reading Schiller and Schlegel.

But that begs the question; does it now appeal to me so much because it seems like truth to me, or is it just the recognisance of the confirmation of the only philosophical approach I’ve personally understood well enough?

Once again, my fundamental intuitions about a movement are confirmed in an introduction by secondary authors.

Here I am, again starting a book “only for the sections I need”, knowing full well I’m going to read the whole thing, despite my thesis supervisor convincing me I’ve already read plenty to get the start of my writing process going.

Oops.

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