{"title":"Friedrich Schlegel, Coleridge, and the Ethics of Amathonte","authors":"Philipp Hunnekuhl","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10tq4xt.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10tq4xt.16","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter seven discusses Robinson’s final attempt at making a living as a professional comparatist, or intercultural ‘literator’, to use his own term – his translation and critical transmission of Christian Leberecht Heyne’s ‘Persian tale’ Amathonte (published by Longman under the title Amatonda in 1811). Amathonte, in all its humour and playfulness characteristic of Heyne, is a scathing satirical attack on the habitual indifference with which one imbibes, from familial and social authorities, motives for decision-making. Robinson, in the preface to his translation, hence praises the book as ‘a picture of moral excellence and domestic felicity’, not least for its abolitionist appeal and advocation of emancipated communal life. This chapter hence argues that Robinson undertook the transmission of the work, encompassing his critical introduction of Friedrich Schlegel to his readers as well as appended samples from Jean Paul, according to his pioneering approach of ‘Free Moral Discourse’. Amathonte subsequently caught the attention of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who discussed and praised it in a letter to Robinson of March 1811. Chapter seven therefore also recapitulates Robinson’s ‘intimate acquaintance’ with, and ‘enthusiasm for’ (Diana Behler), the critical school of the Schlegel brothers, in particular their Athenaeum.","PeriodicalId":210578,"journal":{"name":"Henry Crabb Robinson","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127022329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Godwinian Critic","authors":"Philipp Hunnekuhl","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10tq4xt.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10tq4xt.11","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter two discloses how Robinson’s in-depth study of William Godwin’s Political Justice prompted his first theory of literature, published in a mid-1795 article in Benjamin Flower’s radical Cambridge Intelligencer. According to this theory, Godwin’s necessitarian philosophy had succeeded in situating truth in the moral concerns that a poet raises. Where an author’s imagination proves compatible with the laws of necessity, literature may exert a direct didactic influence on the motives governing the mind, and thus promote disinterested benevolence. Godwinism qua ‘New Philosophy of Love’, it emerges further from Robinson’s hitherto unknown draft article ‘on novels’ (1798) that he intended for John Aikin’s radical Monthly Magazine but never submitted, pervades Robinson’s formal and informal literary criticism prior to his turn to Kant. Robinson’s Godwinian criticism already comprised comparative elements, discussing, for instance, novels by Godwin himself, Thomas Holcroft, Ann Radcliffe, Jonathan Swift, Voltaire, and Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, among many more.","PeriodicalId":210578,"journal":{"name":"Henry Crabb Robinson","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117250821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kant, Aesthetic Autonomy, and Literary Ethics","authors":"Philipp Hunnekuhl","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10tq4xt.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10tq4xt.12","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter three reveals the paradigm shift in Robinson’s theorization of literature that his ‘conversion’ from the empiricism of Locke, Hume, and Godwin to Kant’s critical philosophy prompted. Yet Kant’s notion of aesthetic autonomy – of art’s detachment from the motives of the mind and the causality governing the laws of nature – occasioned an impasse in Robinson’s conceptualization of literature’s ethical relevance. He resolved this in an ingenious move by skilfully locating in Kant’s critical philosophy, and then developing, an analogy between art and morals: the self-contained structure and dynamic of a work of literature find their corresponding parameters in the reader’s mind, in her or his moral compass. On the basis of this analogy, chapter three argues, Robinson conducted his own ‘ethical turn’ away from notions of absolute aesthetic autonomy, and developed the ground-breaking critical principle of ‘Free Moral Discourse’ (Hunnekuhl) that from here onwards underpinned his literary activities. Against the backdrop of various unpublished manuscripts, this chapter discusses Robinson’s articles on Hume and causality, and on Moses Mendelssohn and the Pantheism Controversy, in the Monthly Magazine (1799–1801), as well as his letters ‘On the Philosophy of Kant’ in the Monthly Register and Encyclopaedian Magazine (1802–03).","PeriodicalId":210578,"journal":{"name":"Henry Crabb Robinson","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127316747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moral Discourse in A. W. Schlegel, Schiller, Goethe, and Lessing","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10tq4xt.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10tq4xt.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":210578,"journal":{"name":"Henry Crabb Robinson","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128616857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Note on the Text","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv10tq4xt.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv10tq4xt.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":210578,"journal":{"name":"Henry Crabb Robinson","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121825588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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