Introduction
As the Romantic philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling emphasizes in the following passage, art is the most direct expression of nature’s truth, and philosophy can only artificially reconstruct the natural truths that art is able to access so intimately: “Art is paramount to the philosopher precisely because it opens to him, as it were, the holy of holies, where it burns in eternal and original unity, as if in a single flame, that which in nature and history is rent asunder and in life and action, no less than in thought, must forever fly apart. The view of nature which the philosopher frames artificially is for art the original and natural one.”[1]
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