The widespread influence of Romanticism led to the universalization of the conception of the Romantic subject. German Idealism, a major continental philosophical tradition from Kant to Hegel, provided a theoretical basis for the exploration of Romantic subjectivity and the subject-object identity. The Romantic concept of nature and its relation to the idea of the creative imagination is investigated in the seminar in order to shed light on the subject-nature relationships. The seminar explores the Hegelian subject under the light of the Romantic obsession with nature. The subject-object relation in German Idealist philosophy is analyzed in terms of the role played by Nature in its Romantic sense. Finally, the seminar seeks to demonstrate that the Hegelian perception of the subject-nature identity could be regarded as a theorization of Romantic subjectivity’s obsession with Nature. The Hegelian conception of the subject-nature non-identity provided the Hegelian subject with an incomplete identity, one that always undergoes an ongoing process of identity construction.
