Liberals and leftists are not wrong in describing romanticism as reactionary, because it did indeed become that after 1810. The problem is that they make that description true of the movement as a whole, as if romanticism were essentially reactionary.

The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state.

The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main problem of German philosophy for the next century. This is the old conflict between reason and faith which recurred during the pantheism controversy between Jacobi and Mendelssohn.

Schiller is an important philosopher because he shows just how integral the idea of beauty is in normal life.

All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

Hegel remains of great importance to understand ourselves, but essentially because we have all grown out of a reaction against Hegel.