WorkNovalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg)

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Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg) (1772–1801) · Leipzig: Kluckhohn ed.; written c. 1798-99

InferredFuller quotes Novalis's well-known aphorism "Philosophy is peculiarly homesickness" and engages with it analytically; Hudspeth identified the source as Novalis's Fragmente und Studien, confirming Fuller has it accurately. Fuller quotes Novalis directly, paraphrasing rather than translating exactly two aphorisms from his Fragmente und Studien. Hudspeth identified the canonical aphorism 'Die Philosophie ist eigentlich Heimweh—Trieb überall zu Hause zu sein' (Philosophy is properly homesickness; the wish to be everywhere at home), which Fuller renders as 'Philosophy is peculiarly home-sickness; an overmastering desire to be at home.' She also cites Novalis's characterizations of unbelievers and dismissals of philosophy as mere system.

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Documented 1832–1833

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed2records

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1832—

Letter to James F. Clarke

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“Then Navalis says "Philosophy is the art of discovering the place of truth in every encountered event and circumstance; to attune all relations to truth.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Fuller quotes Novalis's well-known aphorism "Philosophy is peculiarly homesickness" and engages with it analytically; Hudspeth identified the source as Novalis's Fragmente und Studien, confirming Fuller has it accurately.

1833—

Letter to James F. Clarke

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“Then Novalis says, ‘Philosophy is the art of discovering the place of truth in every encountered event and circumstance, to attune all relations to truth.’ Philosophy is peculiarly home-sickness; an overmastering desire to be at home.”

Fuller, Margaret. Letter 84 ([ca. 20 May 1833]). In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller quotes Novalis directly, paraphrasing rather than translating exactly two aphorisms from his Fragmente und Studien. Hudspeth identified the canonical aphorism 'Die Philosophie ist eigentlich Heimweh—Trieb überall zu Hause zu sein' (Philosophy is properly homesickness; the wish to be everywhere at home), which Fuller renders as 'Philosophy is peculiarly home-sickness; an overmastering desire to be at home.' She also cites Novalis's characterizations of unbelievers and dismissals of philosophy as mere system.

Hudspeth identified the canonical aphorism 'Die Philosophie ist eigentlich Heimweh—Trieb überall zu Hause zu sein' (Philosophy is properly homesickness; the wish to be everywhere at home), which Fuller renders as 'Philosophy is peculiarly home-sickness; an overmastering desire to be at home.' She also cites Novalis's characterizations of unbelievers and dismissals of philosophy as mere system.