[3][4] The German title is: Das Älteste Systemprogramm Des Deutschen Idealismus.
Later research suggests that manuscript had come from the estate of Hegel's student Friedrich Christoph Förster (1791-1868).
“Heidegger owned the Rosenzweig’s edition of the “oldest systematic program” of 1917, but said he could “never reconcile himself with the notion”: “Text by Schelling, notes by Hegel”.
Scholars on the topic of authorship:[citation needed] List from: Frank-Peter Hansen (see Bibliography).
Raffaele Milani writes that in the essay, "...the idea of Beauty unifies all others in a fusion of the self and nature.
[6] Jason Josephson-Storm has interpreted the essay as a source on Hegel's view of myth, especially Hegel's perception (in line with other eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German philosophers) that myth has disappeared and left a cultural vacuum, which Josephson-Storm argues anticipates the idea of disenchantment.