ABSTRACT
The dissolution of the distinction between literature and philosophy, which has been at the heart of a certain trend in aesthetics associated with the fashionable label ‘deconstruction’, is not something altogether new, but has its origin in German Romanticism. One of the Lyceum fragments written by Friedrich Schlegel reads as follows: ‘The entire history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: All art should become science, and all science, art; poetry and philosophy should be united.’1
