1 juin 2024
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Jeffrey Reid, « Mental Illness as Irony: Hegel's Diagnosis of Novalis », Studia Hegeliana. Journal of the Spanish Society for Hegelian Studies, ID : 10.24310/stheg.10.2024.17808
Hegel reads the poet Novalis as an expression of terminal irony, a pathological case of Gemüt, where the conscious mind is alienated from reality and turns its negativity inwards on the contents of its own natural soul. The condition of self-feeling, presented in Hegel’s “Anthropology”, is a self-consumption that manifests itself somatically in the physical disease (consumption) from which Novalis dies. The poet’s literary production represents a pathological fixation that impedes the dynamic organicity of Hegelian Science. As such, Novalis’s mental illness and death constitute an expression of romantic irony and an ongoing threat to Hegel’s philosophy.