Political Romanticism

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Translator's Introduction -- Preface -- Introduction -- The German conception: political romanticism as an ideology of reaction and restoration -- The French conception: romanticism as a revolutionary principle -- Rousseauism -- The explanation of revolution in terms of the esprit romantique and the esprit classique -- The confusion of the concept of political romanticism and the path to a definition -- 1 The Outward Situation -- The personal political significance of romantic writers in Germany -- Schlegel's political insignificance -- Müller's political development: an Anglophile in Gottingen, a feudal and estatist-conservative anticentralist in Berlin, a functionary of the absolutist centralized state in the Tyrol -- 2 The Structure of the Romantic Spirit -- La recherche de la Réalité -- The occasionalist structure of romanticism -- 3 Political Romanticism -- Survey of the development of theories of the state since -- The difference between the romantic conception of the state and the counterrevolutionary and legitimist conception -- The state and the king as occasional objects of romantic interest -- The romantic incapacity for ethical and legal valuation -- Romanticized ideas in political philosophy -- Adam Miiller's productivity: his mode of argumentation: the rhetorically formed resonance of significant impressions -- his antitheses: rhetorical contrasts -- The occasional character of all romanticized objects -- Brief indication of the difference between political 146 romanticism and a romantic politics: In the latter, it is the effect and not the cause that is occasional -- Excursus: the romantic as a political type in the 149 conception of the liberal bourgeoisie, exemplified by David Friedrich Strauss's Julian the Apostate