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revealed <strong>the</strong> unstable nature <strong>of</strong> language <strong>and</strong> linked this fact directly to <strong>the</strong> finitude <strong>of</strong> human
consciousness. The Jena <strong>romantic</strong>s <strong>and</strong> especially Friedrich Schlegel, by emphasizing <strong>the</strong>
limits <strong>of</strong> <strong>underst<strong>and</strong>ing</strong> took an account <strong>of</strong> incomprehensibility <strong>and</strong> investigated about <strong>the</strong>
element <strong>of</strong> non-<strong>underst<strong>and</strong>ing</strong> which occurs in every act <strong>of</strong> <strong>underst<strong>and</strong>ing</strong>.
Such convictions along with <strong>the</strong>ir anti-foundationalism led <strong>the</strong>m to indorse <strong>the</strong>
fragmentary characteristic <strong>of</strong> human consciousness <strong>and</strong> secure <strong>the</strong>ir turn toward a new style <strong>of</strong>
philosophical writing. Thus, <strong>the</strong> <strong>romantic</strong> fragment was born as an ironic genre that contains a
combination <strong>of</strong> poetry <strong>and</strong> philosophy. The aes<strong>the</strong>tics <strong>of</strong> fragmentary writing indicates an
internal alteration which hovers between self-creation <strong>and</strong> self-destruction. Therefore <strong>the</strong>
<strong>romantic</strong> work challenges <strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> totality <strong>and</strong> embraces its own imperfection. Although
this attitude will lead to <strong>the</strong> work's unworking, by ignoring <strong>the</strong> "final word", it leaves <strong>the</strong> work
open to future. This is <strong>the</strong> work <strong>of</strong> <strong>romantic</strong> work.
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