Produktywna konstrukcja – uwagi o Novalisa rozumieniu „natury”

Abstract

This article attempts to provide an overview of the concept of nature in Novalis’ writings. Special emphasis is placed on the philosophical context of the development of this concept, especially the tradition of German transcendentalism (Kant, Fichte) and the critical attitude towards Fichte’s model of the self-determining ‘I’. Novalis replaced Fichte’s idea with a ‘dialogical’ concept, according to which every act of self-consciousness of the ‘I’ already presupposes the presence of the ‘not-I’. Novalis’s conception of nature also had a considerable influence on his understanding of the source and aims of artistic creation, with its distinctly utopian character. In this context, attention has also been drawn to the model of the artist, to which Novalis gives a unique cognitive status - the artist reads the ‘hieroglyphic’ writing of nature.