Key Features:

Highlights the contributions of German romantic philosophy to literary criticism, irony, cinema, religion, and biology.

Emphasises the important role that women played in the movement’s formation.

Reveals the ways in which German romantic philosophy impacted developments in modernism, existentialism and critical theory in the twentieth century.

Interdisciplinary approach with contributions from philosophers, Germanists, historians and literary scholars.

Providing both broad perspectives and new insights, this Handbook is essential reading for scholars undertaking new research on German romantic philosophy as well as for advanced students requiring a thorough understanding of the subject.