La dimensión religiosa de la existencia en la literatura romántica: el concepto de religión en “Geschichte eines Braminen” de Karoline von Günderrode en diálogo con Friedrich Schleiermacher

Abstract

The literary work of Karoline von Günderrode deals, without a doubt, with the same ideological and aesthetic concerns that characterize the texts of the first Romantic writers. One of the key issues which have occupied these writers is redefining the concept of religion. In their works, they defend the need to recover the spiritual side of the human being, oppressed and denied by a materialistic and rational world and a morality that suppressed the true nature of man. The theories of Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher on true religion had a fundamental importance in the romantic thought. Like his contemporaries, Karoline von Günderrode also reflects in his writings on religious issues. In his story “Geschichte eines Braminen” can be seen, as shown in this paper, the influence of Schleiermacher’s ideas on the concept of religion presented by the writer.