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It is not the case that Schlegel's own Athenaeum fragments show that irony, not aesthetic feeling, is the proper vehicle for infinite approximation.
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Aesthetic feeling itself demonstrates infinite openness through sublime experience, rivaling irony's capacity for approximation.
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Pure irony risks becoming circular negation without positive content, while aesthetic feeling grounds infinite striving in embodied reality.
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Schlegel's fragments show complementarity of irony and beauty rather than irony's exclusive primacy for achieving infinite approach.
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Irony's self-reflexive structure allows consciousness to perpetually negate and transcend itself, achieving infinite conceptual approximation.
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Aesthetic feeling requires settled judgment, while irony maintains productive instability necessary for approaching the infinite.
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The Athenaeum fragments explicitly emphasize ironic fragmentation and critique over unified sensory experience as philosophical method.
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