 Recent work has emphasized the Kantian inheritance that lies behind Schlegel’s notions of irony (Rush 2016, who sees Schlegel as radicalizing Kantian regulativism in a way that makes it “more contingent, historical and pragmatic”) and of a “progressive universal poetry” (Ameriks 2014). Others have stressed the importance of Schlegel’s philosophical work in ways that open up his broader concerns with life and the world of organic beings ( see the discussion of Schlegel’s later work in Section 6 below, as well as Gorodeisky 2011 and Nassar 2014, 2015). As argued below, these larger interests can be seen particularly in Schlegel’s contributions to ethical, social and political philosophy.