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It is known that the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin was a passionate reader of Kant. There is evidence of his parallel interest on poetry and philosophy in his personal correspondence, where references to his own poetical production intertwine with references to his main intellectual interests: the study of Kant and the Greeks. Hölderlin, however, was a colleague of Hegel and Schelling during the years in Tübingen, and he attained personally Fichte’s lessons. His peculiar position on the philosophical debate between Kant and Idealism is thoroughly expressed in the manuscript Urtheil und Seyn from 1795. A careful reading of the text provides an account of the tension between Kant’s philosophy and Fichte’s idealistic approach. Hölderlin displays a critical argument against Fichte’s denial of the original unity expressed in the Kantian formula of an “unknown common root”. Such a pre-reflexive unity is discarded by Fichte as being unable to bear fruit, and in its place he posits an absolute principle, the identity of the self, the absolute I. Hölderlin indicates the incoherence of stating as “absolute” something which is reflexive, and therefore a result of a division, thus casting a straightforward attack to the nuclear ground of the idealistic project. Such an attack can ultimately be interpreted either as a sound critique to idealism main principle, but still engaged with the idealistic privileged search of an absolute ground or as a sheer opposition to Idealism -in as much as Hölderlin’s critique seems to emerge out of respect for the Kantian position. However, Hölderlin’s further development of this issue in literary form does not provide an argument to identify his approach to the absolute with that of the romantics.

La tesi contrasta les conseqüències filosòfiques i la constel·lació temàtica de la Crítica del Judici, amb les manifestacions poeticofilosòfiques de F. Hölderlin i S.T. Coleridge. La font principal de recerca són aquelles tesis de la Crítica del Judici rellevants per comprendre l'esclat de l'idealisme allà on aquest nou sistema involucra significativament art i experiència estètica. Hölderlin s'instal·la de manera genuïna en la tensió entre l'idealisme i la filosofia crítica. Per la radicalitat dels seus plantejaments podrem presentar-lo també com a poeta romàntic o precedent del romanticisme. Pel que fa a Coleridge estudiem la recepció immediata de la filosofia Kantiana en el medi cultural britànic per contrastar el paper del poeta en la importació de la ideologia romàntica alemanya. L'objectiu és presentar Coleridge com a poeta que assumeix els postulats del romanticisme alemany i investigar si aquests postulats poden relacionar-se amb el balanç de la filosofia kantiana expressat a Crítica del Judici., The thesis compares the philosophical consequences of Critique of Judgement to the poetic and philosophical productions of F.Höldelrin and S.T. Colerige. The main source of research are those aspects of Critique of Judgement relevant to understand the outbreak of idealism particularly where this new system deals significantly with art and aesthetic experience. Hölderlin stands in a genuine position beneath the tensions of idealism and kantian criticism, and his radical aproach to poetry allows to present him as a romantic poet or forerunner of romanticism. For S.T. Coleridge we study the immediate reception of kantian philosophy in british soil in order to highlight his role as a mediator of the german romantic ideology. The aim is to portrait Coleridge as a poet who assumed the main postulates of german idealism and to investigate how far those postulates can be connected to the final conclusions of kantian philosophy as formulated in Critique of Judgement.