The 'Fichte Studien' of Novalis and Tathandlung put to the test of transcendence

The importance of the intellectual meeting between the first German romantics and Fichte's work, especially with the first versions of the Wissenschaftslehre, is well known. This work is usually regarded as the foundation of romantic thought. Studying Novalis' interpretation of Fichte, we would like to show that romantic philosophy was created through a critical dialogue with Fichte's absolute Ich, so that this philosophy may appear as a negative knowledge of the absolute. With this contribution, a new interpretation of art's situation in Novalis work is being prepared, which could be described more as a Poetik of separation and divergences, of unfinited being, rather than "speculative aesthetik."