Abstract

By reverting of diversest ideal-historic sources and with reference to contemporary problem areas Friedrich Schlegel develops a far-reaching concept of critique, neithcr should be limited on single areas nor exhausts in the very analysis of deficiencics. Rather Schlegel understands critique as a productive matter which always has to account for the own critical intentions and procedures. Schlegel's concept of critique gets its innovative potentiality in the struggle for models explaining a new age. In the following the claim is to explain the various implications of Schlegel's concept of critique. to discuss their systematical interrelation and to judge their theoretical results.