Abstract

The essay that follows deals with Novalis’s reception and subsequent engagement with the Western theological concept of anima mundi in “Monolog,” written between 1798 and 1799. The thesis I propose is that the work encapsulates Novalis’s cosmological theology of language. Throughout the course of my interpretation, I ruminate upon Novalis’s conspicuous remark that language engenders a “world onto itself” in tandem arrangement with several lines of inquiry. The first asks whether language is a self-enclosed semiotic system, entailing the fundamental distinction between languages of communication among human subjects and language as such. The second considers how the “tender effects” of speech and writing, as Novalis refers to them, conceal the inner-workings of language, whose internal coherence stems from language itself. The third contemplates the breadth of Jena Romantic literature as the embodiment of a living, animating force in the universe giving form to the manifold unity of our worldly reality.

摘要

接下来的文章涉及诺瓦利斯的接受以及随后对西方神学“ Anima Mundi”概念的参与在1798年至1799年之间撰写的《独白》中。我提出的论点是，该作品囊括了诺瓦利斯的语言宇宙学神学。在我的整个解释过程中，我回想起诺瓦利斯的引人注目的一句话，即语言通过多条查询线串联在一起形成了一个“世界自身”。第一个问题询问语言是否是一种自我封闭的符号系统，这就要求人类主体之间的交流语言与这种语言之间存在根本的区别。第二部分考虑了诺瓦利斯所说的言语和写作的“温柔效应”如何掩盖了语言的内部运作，其内部连贯性源于语言本身。第三部分将耶拿浪漫主义文学的广度视为生活的化身，