http://youtu.be/hDmubeqjZKA Watch on YouTube Many of the books discussed on PEL advance their thesis methodically. Not so with Schleiermacher's On Religion. (Schleiermacher's approach changed after he became a university professor, whereupon he became more systematic and less interesting.) Schleiermacher's lack of structured argument may have resulted from his Continue Reading …
Capturing Schleiermacher’s Romantic Mood
Watch in YouTube Can modern film depict Schleiermacher's nature-obsessed 18th century Romantic mood? Probably not, but let's go. I thought I better understood Husserlian phenomenology after reading Sartre's Nausea, which even in translation has some gripping prose. The clip above, from Werner Herzog's Nosferatu (1979) exudes both the German Romantic aesthetic, and a Continue Reading …