Aesthetics and irony. The reception of Fichte's philosophy by Friedrich Schlegel in the Jena period

The article analyzes the reception of Fichte's philosophy by Friedriech Schlegel in the Jena period. In particular it focuses on the role of irony in the interpretation of Fichte's first principle and its involvement with the design aesthetics of the romantic program that F. Schlegel initiated during those years. In contrast to the more simplistic conception of Hegel, it is argued that the irony is, according to F. Schlegel, the bridge capable of responding to the relations between infinite and finite, and the integrating element between poetry and philosophy.