Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism
Author: Frederick C. Beiser
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780674418967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frederick C. Beiser
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780674418967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Frederick C. Beiser
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780674257276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shows how the French Revolution transformed and politicized German philosophy. In Germany three political traditions (liberalism, conservatism and romanticism) developed due to events in France. This book examines the genesis and context of these traditions and illuminates their political ideas.
Author: Tim Blanning
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2011-08-02
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0679605002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“A splendidly pithy and provocative introduction to the culture of Romanticism.”—The Sunday Times “[Tim Blanning is] in a particularly good position to speak of the arrival of Romanticism on the Euorpean scene, and he does so with a verve, a breadth, and an authority that exceed every expectation.”—National Review From the preeminent historian of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries comes a superb, concise account of a cultural upheaval that still shapes sensibilities today. A rebellion against the rationality of the Enlightenment, Romanticism was a profound shift in expression that altered the arts and ushered in modernity, even as it championed a return to the intuitive and the primitive. Tim Blanning describes its beginnings in Rousseau’s novel La Nouvelle Héloïse, which placed the artistic creator at the center of aesthetic activity, and reveals how Goethe, Goya, Berlioz, and others began experimenting with themes of artistic madness, the role of sex as a psychological force, and the use of dreamlike imagery. Whether unearthing the origins of “sex appeal” or the celebration of accessible storytelling, The Romantic Revolution is a bold and brilliant introduction to an essential time whose influence would far outlast its age. “Anyone with an interest in cultural history will revel in the book’s range and insights. Specialists will savor the anecdotes, casual readers will enjoy the introduction to rich and exciting material. Brilliant artistic output during a time of transformative upheaval never gets old, and this book shows us why.”—The Washington Times “It’s a pleasure to read a relatively concise piece of scholarship of so high a caliber, especially expressed as well as in this fine book.”—Library Journal
Author: Howard Mumford Jones
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jon Mee
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2011-02-14
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1444330446
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Romanticism and Revolution: A Readerpresents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution during the 1790s and influenced the Romantic authors. Presents readings chronologically to allow readers to experience the unfolding of the debate as it occurred in the 1790s Provides an accessible and in-depth sampling of the major contributors to the Revolution debate, from Price, Burke, and Paine to Wollstonecraft and Godwin
Author: Ian L. Donnachie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780719066719
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first of two anthologies designed to explore the changes and transitions in European culture between 1780 and 1830. The collection of extracts in this anthology provide primary and secondary sources on the death of the Old Regime, the Napoleonic pheonomenon, slavery, religion and reform. Each selection is accompanied by a detailed introduction explaining the context and significance of the sources. Extracts in the anthology stimulate questions rather than provide reassuring answers, and offer vital insights to the major events, movements, and personalities of the time.
Author: Duncan Wu
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1999-10-29
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9780631218777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.
Author: Isaiah Berlin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780691086620
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the century's most influential philosophers assesses a movement that changed the course of history in this unedited transcript of his 1965 Mellon lecture series. "Exhilaratingly thought-provoking".--"Times London".
Author: John Tresch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-02-06
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 0226812227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the years immediately following Napoleon’s defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment’s emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a return to the organic unity of an earlier age and triggering the artistic and philosophical movement of romanticism. Previous scholars have viewed romanticism and industrialization in opposition, but in this groundbreaking volume John Tresch reveals how thoroughly entwined science and the arts were in early nineteenth-century France and how they worked together to unite a fractured society. Focusing on a set of celebrated technologies, including steam engines, electromagnetic and geophysical instruments, early photography, and mass-scale printing, Tresch looks at how new conceptions of energy, instrumentality, and association fueled such diverse developments as fantastic literature, popular astronomy, grand opera, positivism, utopian socialism, and the Revolution of 1848. He shows that those who attempted to fuse organicism and mechanism in various ways, including Alexander von Humboldt and Auguste Comte, charted a road not taken that resonates today. Essential reading for historians of science, intellectual and cultural historians of Europe, and literary and art historians, The Romantic Machine is poised to profoundly alter our understanding of the scientific and cultural landscape of the early nineteenth century.