James D. Reid is Professor of Philosophy at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. His research is interdisciplinary, drawing from philosophical, artistic, and scientific sources. His work is devoted to problems in axiology and the theory of meaning and the challenges of finding fitting ways of expressing the importance of what we care about. He has published widely on various philosophical issues in Kant and his successors in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the recipient of two major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

• Preface and Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chronology


• Further Reading


• Note on Texts and Translation


• Key to Abbreviations and Editorial Symbols


• A Brief Note on Names


• PART ONE: PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS, NOTES, AND FRAGMENTS


• I: Early Prose


• II: Philosophical Studies: 1797


• Hemsterhuis Studies


• Kant Studies


• III: Assorted Remarks (Pollen): 1798


• IV: Faith and Love: 1798


• Flowers


• Faith and Love


• Political Aphorisms


• V: Unpublished Notes and Fragments: 1798


• Logological Fragments [I]


• Logological Fragments [II]


• Poetry


• Poeticisms


• Assorted Fragments I


• Assorted Fragments II


• Fragments or Thought-Tasks


• Anecdotes


• Assorted Fragments III


• Teplitz Fragments


• Supplements to the Teplitz Fragments


• On Goethe


• Studies in the Visual Arts


• VI: Dialogues and Monologue: 1798/9


• Dialogues


• Monologue


• VII: Remarks on Friedrich Schlegel's Ideas: 1799


• VIII: Christianity or Europe: 1799


• IX: Fragments and Studies: 1799-1800


• Group I: 1-243 (June-December 1799)


• Group II: 244-497 (August 1799-February 1800)


• Group III: 498-574 (Late 1799-April 1800)


• Group IV: 575-695 (Summer and Spring 1800)


• Group V: 696-705


• PART TWO: THE NOVELS


• I: The Disciples at Saïs


• II: Heinrich von Ofterdingen


• PART THREE: HYMNS TO THE NIGHT


• Index

Novalis: Philosophical, Literary, and Poetic Writings assembles, for the first time in English, translations of Novalis's published philosophical works, a large share of his surviving philosophical notes and fragments, his two unfinished novels (The Disciples at Saïs and Heinrich von Ofterdingen), and the Hymns to the Night. Readers interested in Novalis's views on philosophy, art, morality, politics, and religion, and how positions in each of these areas might be unified in single, overarching vision of reality, will find the present translation an essential guide.