Hölderlin'in romantik estetiği

Hölderlin?s fundamental intuition consists of the unity of poetry and philosophy. In hiswork nature is not in simple opposition to civilization, but it also characterizes totality itself.Nature ie the symbol for this totality.Hölderlin seeks the way that leads the proper, and that is also to lead us to find what isproper to us. The opposition between nature and art constitutes the thought of totality.Hölderlin reaches this thought of totality through the relation between nature and art as amedium. He replaces the idealistic conception by an intersubjective one. By this, he wishesthat man takes hold of his destiny in complete freedom. For him, ?man is a god as soon as heis a man?.Key words: return, whole, nature, man, desire for death