Introduction Undoubtedly it would be useful to interpret the "new Nietzsche," as he is often called, within the larger contexts of "Nietzsche and the ...

Wackenroder and the musical conception of early Romanticism.- The early romantic movement brings in a new general conception of art and the artist. Within this context, music is treated as a proper and independent form of art. This paper shows how a reflection on music is to be found expressed in the texts of Wackenroder, which is later to be carried on by other thinkers.

The texts in this volume constitute highlights in the movement called transcendental idealism.