Open AccessMito Tecnicizzato e mitologie della Ragione Il progetto romantico di una ‘nuova Mitologia’
Author(s) -
Lorenzo Capitanio
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annali di ca' foscari. serie occidentale
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2499-2232
pISSN - 2499-1562
DOI - 10.30687/annoc/2499-1562/2019/01/022
Subject(s) - mythology , legitimation , romanticism , german , utopia , humanities , philosophy , horizon , art history , art , theology , political science , law , physics , linguistics , astronomy , politics
The call for a “New Mythology” represents one of most controversial traits of German Romanticism. In the early works of F. Schlegel and F.W.J. Schelling, as in the so called Älteste Systemprogramm des deutschen Idealismus , mythology stands for the Utopia of a universal reorganization of knowledge, capable of founding, after the Legitimationskrise of the modern era, a new horizon of shared ideas and values. Starting from an investigation of the mythological form as legitimation instrument and utopian catalyzer, this paper aims to shed light on the historical genesis of the “new Mythology” and its outcomes.