@article{2013the author = {}, title = {The Search for the Orient in German Idealism}, journal = {Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft}, volume = {163}, number = {2}, year = {2013}, abstract = {SummaryThe essay analyzes the Orientalist contributions of Friedrich Schlegel, Hegel, and Schelling (and, to a lesser degree, Schopenhauer). It shows how many of the basic categories that still govern our approach to the languages, arts, religions, and social structures of China, India, and Iran go back to the conceptual work done by figures connected to German Idealism and its peculiar transformation of traditional Lutheranism into a metaphysics of the self-unfolding of the human mind in the various cultures. The normative stance of these figures is something that may still inspire Oriental studies today.}, url = {https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.163.2.0431} doi = {10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.163.2.0431} }