Hölderlin, Hegel and the Communism of Spirits

Abstract

Taking the theme of community as a common thread, this work attempts to reconstruct the joint intellectual journey that led Friedrich Hölderlin and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel to posit the foundations of speculative idealism. By comparing the sources and texts of both authors from 1794 to 1799, this work will clarify the origin and use of some shared terms, as well as the relevance they had for carrying out their joint projects. Finally, we will attempt to show how many of the ideas presented by Hölderlin in the various versions of his Hyperion had an impact on Hegel’s works.