I. Introduction: Memory and its Objects in Early Romanticism

II. Reconciliation and Fragmentation: The Early Romantic Memory Model

1. The Ambiguity of Memory and the Form of the Fragment

2. Memory For and Against History: Reciprocal Movements, Conflated Narratives

3. The Remembering Subject: Body, Mind, and Memory in the »Belated Present« of Fragmentary Representation

a. Memory as Material and Transcendent

b. The Importance of the Fragment for Representing Early Romantic Conceptions of Memory

III. From Recollection to Depiction: An Incipient Crisis of Memory and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory

1. Constructions of Memory as Metaphorical and Material in the Mid- to Late Eighteenth Century

2. Aesthetics and History, and the Historiographic Function of Art: Schiller and Herder

3. Aesthetic Autonomy Versus Traumatic Memory: Lessing and Moritz

Conclusion

IV. Reconstructing Origins: Remembrance in German Idealism

1. The Problem of »Enacting« the Origin of Consciousness

2. Critical Philosophical and Idealist Definitions of Memory

3. Constructions of Memory in Fichte and Schelling

Conclusion

V. Novalis’s Conceptualizations of Memory and Its Role in Literary and Philosophical Production

1. »Gedächtnis« and »Erinnerung« as Components of Novalis’s Theories of Consciousness and Poesy

2. Literary Reconstructions of Individual and Collective Memory

a. Heinrich von Ofterdingen

b. Die Lehrlinge zu Sais

c. Hymnen an die Nacht, Geistliche Lieder, Die Christenheit oder Europa

3. Memory as Indispensable and as Unstable: The Reciprocities of Consciousness and Their Implications for Memory in Novalis’ s Philosophical Fragments

4. Memory as Metaphor? Implications of Novalis’s Theory of Memory for a Philosophy of History

Conclusion

VI. Memory and History in the Fragments of Friedrich Schlegel

1. The Creation of a Philosophy of History as a Mnemonic Act

2. The Relevance of the Fragment Form for Schlegel’s Theory of Memory

3. Constructing Relationships Between Present and Past Self and Between Self and Other in the Philosophical Fragments and in Lucinde

4. Historiography as Fragmented Recollection Rather Than as Narrative Documentation

Conclusion

VII. Conclusion: Early Romanticism and Later Theories of Memory and Representation

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