Women Writers' Philosophy of Love in German Romanticism: Dialogical Life in Letters

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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
	1	The Concept of German Romanticism
	2	Salon Sociability
	3	The Romantic Letter as an Expression of Sociability
	4	The Romantic Philosophy of Symphilosophy and Sympoetry
	5	Dialogue and the Discourse on Love
	6	The Structure of This Book
1
Dorothea Mendelssohn Veit Schlegel’s Philosophy of Infinite Love
	1	From the Tugendbund to the Jena Circle and Salon
	2	Symphilosophical Life in Letters
	3	Symphilosophizing with Rahel Levin Varnhagen
	4	The Philosophy of Romantic Love: the Case of Lucinde
	5	The Romantic Irony of Love Means Love Eternal
	6	Symphilosophy and Love in Florentin
2 Rahel Levin Varnhagen’s Dialogical Network of Love
	1	Jewish Feminist Consciousness
	2	Salon’s Aesthetics of Art Installation
	3	The Correspondence Project
	4	The Network of Love
	5	The Exchange with Friedrich von Gentz as the Ultimate Philia
	6	The Subliminal Dialogue with Goethe Rooted in Agape
	7	Agape as Pacifist Love
3 Karoline von Günderrode’s Love Philosophy as Creative Passion
	1	The Concept of the New Philia
	2	Günderrode’s Poetic Subversion of Patriarchy
	3	Dialogue Strategies in Günderrode’s Letters
	4	The Idea of Intellectual Love as the Foundation of Life
	5	The Philosophy of Love and Death as a Vehicle of Artistic Production
	6	Fictitious Dialogue with Clemens Brentano as Artistic Passion
4 Bettina Brentano von Arnim’s Concept of the New Philia in Die Günderode
	1	Salon Sociability
	2	Symphilosophy and Sympoetry in Letters
	3	Dialogue Strategies in Die Günderode
	4	The New Woman: in Defiance of the Patriarchy
	5	The New Philia: Female Community as an Intellectual Partnership
	6	Female Alternative Spirituality: Schwebereligion
	7	The Concept of Bildung as an Expression of Female Autonomy
	8	The Poeticized Erotics of Nature
	9	Love as a Unifying Concept in Die Günderode
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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