... history and end of the evolution of consciousness, the other the history of nature, each complementing the other in the story ittells. This division of labour, based on the conception of an autonomousrealm ... Schelling, and its literary counterparts, the classicism and Romanticism of Goethe,Schiller, Schlegel, Hardenberg-Novalis and others. At the end of that dialogue stands the system of perhaps the ultimate ... elegies’), both of which seekto synthesise the reflexivity which is the strength and weakness of modernculture with the naivety and spontaneity of the classical idyll. Thus at the dawn of modernity,...