SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Oberlin College, Harriet Martineau, Sans-Culottes
18 Sep 2012
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Romanticism-the extreme, against bourgeoisie, young men, seek order, poise and to express emotion. Music had a direct influence of people"s feelings which is why there was such a response by romantic composers. They expressed nationalism through art and tried to express a variety of human experiences/emotions. Romantic conservative reaction-turned away from enlightenment thinkers who focused on general laws and reasons but both groups were humanistic, concerned with nature, attentive to human consciousness, classical culture and human freedoms. The conservative reaction focused on irrational fears, tradition, feeling, imagination and religion. Revival of poetry, art, focus on groups and communities. Everything focused on the individual, inner experiences and emotions. He believed that the individual had no abstract rights and only has rights and privileges that prevail in a given community in which he acquires them by chance of living there. He was very conservative, favoured reforms and not revolution.
