Der Kreis der Poesie: Friedrich Schlegel entwirft ein Universum des Wissens. (The Circle of Poetry: Friedrich Schlegel Outlines a Universe of Knowledge)
2025, Frankfurt/Main: Deutsches Romantik-Museum
Our gaze falls on a circle in the middle of a sheet of paper belonging to the broader context of a collection of notes for which their author, Friedrich Schlegel, considered using the title “Philosophical Apprenticeship.” The circle is a sketch in the dual sense of the word of being both a draft and a pictorial representation. It is therefore a complex form of secondary text that is linked to other textual elements on the same sheet, as well as referring to other texts by Schlegel.