@article{2017,title={GERMAN ROMANTICS’ CRITIQUE OF ABSOLUTISM AND TRANSFORMATION OF PHILOSOPHY INTO ART},abstractNode={In this article we will examine German romantic philosophers’ transformation of philosophical activity into an artistic engagement based on their radical critique of the absolutism. With this aim, first, we will focus on Fichte’s philosophical absolutist foundationalism, his conceptions of subjectivity, freedom, experience and nature. Second, we will investigate the reasons of Friedrich Schlegel and Friedrich von Hardenberg’s (Novalis) idea that Fichte’s trial to establish philosophy as the absolute science is condemned to failure. Romanticism claims that philosophy does not emerge from an indubitable, absolute knowledge; on the contrary, it emerges from absolute unknowability, yet from an infinite hope, in other words, from a tension inherent to the knowledge process. In the last part, we will address philosophy’s romantic transformation to a pluralist, collective, experiential, forward-looking, hermeneutic production continuing through creation of meaning and values, which is modeled on the romantic poetic production.},author={Nil AVCI},year={2017},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}