Eminescu și metafizica visului
Universitatea de Vest Timișoara. Centrul de Cercetare În Istoriografie Filosofică Și Filosofia Imaginarului, Radu Cernătescu
Revista de filosofie. April 1, 2024 DOI: 10.59277/rf.2024.71.2.01 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that romantic philosophy is a metaphysics of dream based on the inner man, exemplified by Gautier and Eminescu's use of hashish-induced dreams to ascend to heaven. |
Abstract
Considering that the dominant philosophy of an era can be found most clearly expressed in works of literature, this essay attempts to demonstrate that romantic philosophy meant more than the discovery of God immanence in nature. It is about a metaphysics of dream directly lived by the romantic authors and founded on the concept of inner man, which refers to the dichotomy of interiority / exteriority as in the philosophy of St. Augustine. Around this homo interior occurs all the bringing of dream into real life operated by the romantics, an operative metaphysics exemplified here with the work of Gautier and Eminescu, authors who literaturized the same technology of ascending man to heaven, a philosophy based on psychedelic dreams, often induced by hashish.