II Romanticizing
“The world must be romanticized. Then one will again find the original sense. Romanticizing is nothing more than a qualitative involution. In this operation the lower self is identified with a better self. In the same manner we are such a qualitative series of powers. This operation is still completely unknown. When I give the commonplace a higher meaning, the customary a mysterious appearance, the known the dignity of the unknown, the finite the illusion of the infinite, I romanticize it. The operation is the converse for the higher, unknown, mystical and infinite; through this connection it becomes logarithimized. It receives a customary expression. Romantic philosophy. Lingua romana. Reciprocal elevation and debasement.”[i]
[i] Novalis, III Das theoretische Werk, Fragmente und Studien 1797 – 1798, 37., in: Novalis Werke, hrsg. u. komm. v. Schulz, Gerhard, 5. ergänzt. Aufl. a. d. Grundl. d. 2. Aufl. v. 1981, München 2013, S. 384 – 385.
Autor: Uwe Schröder
Titel: Lingua Romana. The Romanticised City. Fragments
Sammelband/Zeitschrift: Heike Hanada (Hg.), fragmantal_ on the dissolution of public space
Verlag: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter und Franz König, Köln
Ort: Köln
Datum: 2024
Seite(n): S. 66-75
ISBN: 978-3-7533-0785-5
News: Symposium fragmental_on the dissolution of public space und Ausstellung Rome_Berlin_Rome, Villa Massimo, Rom