Henry Crabb Robinson, Essays on Kant, Schelling, and German Aesthetics.
Edited by James Vigus

MHRA Critical Texts Vol. 18
ISBN 978-0-947623-88-3
15 October 2010
166 pp.
Pbk £9.99 / $15.99 / €11.99

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As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought.

For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. The contents include ‘Letters on the Philosophy of Kant’ and notes from F. W. J. Schelling’s lectures on the philosophy of art. Further, Robinson’s private lectures for Madame de Staël are presented with her marginalia. In the intellectual history of Romanticism, Robinson emerges as a major figure whose lucid and entertaining essays can still guide the modern reader through the key German texts.

James Vigus is postdoctoral research fellow at the Department for English and American Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

"Robinson's expertise in German philosophy can now be studied in significant detail in the well-documented edition prepared by James Vigus ... Vigus has not only brought together for the first time a full collection of Robinson's essays on German Philosophy, he has made these bold forays into the complexities of Kant and Schelling readily accessible in his general Introduction ... and his notes on the origin and provenance of each of the manuscripts. His volume is a valuable resource ... Scholars of the reception of German Philosophy in the British Romantic period will find it worthwhile to put Robinson alongside of Coleridge at the top of their reading list ... [A] remarkable achievement."

Frederick Burwick, Wordsworth Circle XLI:4 (2010), 244-7.

"Vigus' [edition] bears impressive witness to Robinson's expertise and fills a void [...] the corpus of published and manuscript material remains a fascinating guide to the dynamic intellectual and literary culture of Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century. [...] Vigus' authoritative, scholarly edition of Robinson's Essays is an essential text for anyone interested in late Enlightenment and early Romantic thought in Germany and in what Robinson did to disseminate that thought beyond the borders of the German-speaking world."

Eugene Stelzig, New Books On Literature 19, (28 June 2011) .

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